It is a frightening thing to love someone you know the world rejects.

The way that other people judge me is none of my business.

You are consciousness dressed in form, my love. Consciousness is divine. Matter is divine. Creation is divine. Everything is divine. Are you somehow the only exception?

All for all, always.

...Refusing to feel desire is the only thing more painful than failing to get what you want, and that learning not to yearn, far from preventing disappointment, ultimately guarantees it.

You'll never be hurt as much by being open as you have been remaining closed.

It reminds me that we are born innocent but ignorant, and that to remedy the second of these conditions we inevitably surrender the first.

It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read.

...sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same...

Love has glints of light that wake up our heart to feel the beauty of life.

The past is for learning from and letting go. You can't revisit it. It vanishes.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First let her think she's having her way. And second let her have it.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

Never argue with a librarian; they know too much.

Strikes (1981) are real life. It took up seven weeks of real time. That's a fifth of a pregnancy.

The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.