There's no such thing beneath the heavens as conditions favorable to art. Art must crash through or perish.

To feel as well as hear what someone says requires whole attention.

What can be heavier than wealth than freedom?

Love has the quality of informing almost everything - even one's work.

There is only one answer to destructiveness and that is creativity.

I am inclined to think that eating is a private thing and should be done alone, like other bodily functions.

Off fall the wife, the mother, the lover, the teacher, and the violent artist takes over. I am I alone. I belong to no one but myself. I mate with no one but the spirit. I own no land, have no kin, no friend or enemy. I have no road but this one.