Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.

We only see what we look at. To look is an act of choice.

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.

To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.

Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.

Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.

The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.

The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

Love I must forego. I am not a man with an income.

Practice makes perfect, but it doesn’t make new.

I live in the realm of love and light.

If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized.

Art that I like the most is born out of free association. I try to let my mind open up and see what comes out.

How can it be so unclear to her when it's like the fingers on my hand to me?

I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don't feel that way about anything else.

We're in a battle for our lives for things that really matter to us. There's a shell game going on like I've never seen before.

Never feel safe with the woman you love, for a woman's nature conceals more dangers than you think.

I think it's good politics to beat up on big companies and rich people.