Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.

Desire isn’t appeased by its object, only irritated into something more than desire that can join with the stars to inform the chaotic heavens with sense.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand

True friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

One cannot make oneself, but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else. It is well.

I listen to the gunfire we cannot hear, and begin this journey with the light of knowing the root of my own furious love.

The eyes that see the soul are different from the eyes that see the self. We see soul when we are in the mystery. We see self when we are in the events. The coach must have eyes for both.

I'm glad I've never been so successful that I couldn't stop doing one thing. I've kind of been able to just kick it along and switch around.

Buffoons, buffoons! One can play any tune on them!

A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.

Without a goal there can be no real success.