Much arrogance is necessary equipment for an artist, I think. Not sufficient, but necessary. It carries one across the gaps.

All makers must leave room for acts of the spirit.

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.

Progress means nothing to presence.

Grieving, like being blind, is a strange business; you have to learn how to do it. We seek company in mourning, but after the early bursts of tears, after the praises have been spoken, and the good days remembered, and the lament cried, and the grave closed, there is no company in grief. It is a burden borne alone.

I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.