Attaining consciousness is connected with the gradual liberation from mechanicalness, for man is fully and completely under mechanical laws.

Desire is when you do what you want, will is when you can do what you do not want.

Q. But it seems to me there are circumstances that simply induce one to have negative emo

If one does not develop, one goes down. In life, in ordinary conditions everything goes down, or one capacity may develop at the expense of another.

With the practice of meditation we can develop this ability to more fully love ourselves and to more consistently love others.

I've been wearing my super gown because someone won't let me go get maternity clothes because they are being a paranoid, drama bear

You instinctively display the greatest virtue, or rather the chief defect, of us eccentric Parisians- that is, you assume the vices you have not, and conceal the virtues you possess.

Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.

When we are at peace with ourselves the total expression of that true peace includes our outer being; our body.

Dressing a baby is like putting an octopus into a string bag, making sure none of the arms hang out.

The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.

My most memorable dunk, that I think about very, very often, is the Patrick Ewing dunk.

It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.

I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.