Accept the universeAs the gods gave it to you.If the gods wanted to give you something elseThey’d have done it.If there are other matters and other worldsThere are.

Water’s water and that’s why it’s beautiful.

It’s an already inside outside, The philosophers say it’s the soulBut it’s not the soul: it’s the animal or the man itselfIn its way of existing.

What comes, when it comes, will be what it is.

I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read.

I'm one of my sensations.

I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either.Nobody goes faster than the legs they have.If where I want to go is far away, I’m not there in an instant.(6/20/1919)

And I find a happiness in the fact of accepting —In the sublimely scientific and difficult fact of accepting the inevitable natural.

I’d like to have enough time and quietTo think about absolutely nothing, To not ever feel myself living, To only know myself in others’ eyes, reflected.

On a whitely cloudy day I get sad, almost afraid, And I begin to meditate about problems I make up.

I love flowers for being flowers, directly.And I love trees for being trees without my thought.

Your blessings far outnumber your bitterness.

As a rapper, I don't freestyle. I used to freestyle when I used to get drunk, and it didn't matter.

The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual. Is that not exactly the condition of the world today?

Rule of thumb: Be skeptical of things you learned before you could read. E.g., religion.

When I'm working on a film, I think about how it will play with a tiny audience of friends whose opinions I respect, basically a 40-bloc radius from my apartment in Manhattan.

The fey in this country keep to themselves, and are a separate nation, much like the American Indians, but with even more autonomy.

I always played the ugly sister instead of Cinderella or the Wicked Witch. But those are the parts I love, and actually, to be a character actress, you have more longevity, hopefully.

Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me.

In planetary terms, we're all downstream.