He wrote me a note to say we would create art together and we would make it, with or without the rest of the world.

In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.

We were as Hansel and Gretel and we ventured out into the black forest of the world.

I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth

Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.

Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?

It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies (p. 171).

He wasn't supposed to die, ' he cried out, somewhat desperately, petulantly, like a spoiled child. But I could hear other thoughts racing between us.Neither are you.Neither am I.

I preferred an artist who transformed his time, not mirrored it.

It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that it was.

I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one

I need another drink!” I said as a second attempt to change the subject. “Shots!” America yelled. Shepley rolled his eyes. “Oh, yeah. That’s what you need, another shot.

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.

All hate is the result of people refusing to take responsibility for their own lives.

Dating is all about the chase. It's fun!

Where does she get all the energy? Where does he get all the energy? Nobody GET's energy. Everybody releases energy.

What is the professor's function? To pass on to numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and largely untrue.

It is indeed the boundary of life, beyond which we are not to pass; which the law of nature has pitched for a limit not to be exceeded.

She wanted an Italian sports car - with the sport still in it.

The problem is that our inherent ignorance keeps us in samsara and unable to benefit ourselves and others on a really deep level.

I always sang, I always acted, I always played.