There seeps from heavily jowled or hawk-like foreign faces The guttural sorrow of the refugees.

Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me, otherwise kill me.

Time was away and somewhere else, There were two glasses and two chairs And two people with one pulse.

A pharaoh's profile, a Krishna's grace, tail like a question mark.

It's no go the merry-go-round, it's no go the rickshaw All we want is a limousine and a ticket for the peepshow.

Better authentic mammon than a bogus god.

The sunlight on the garden Hardens and grows cold, We cannot cage the minute Within its nets of gold

I am not yet born; O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity.

World is crazier and more of it than we think, Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion A tangerine and spit the pips and feel The drunkenness of things being various.

None of our hearts are pure, we always have mixed motives. Are self deceivers, but the worst of all Deceits is to murmur 'Lord, I am not worthy' And, lying easy, turn your face to the wall.

World is suddener than we fancy it.

Art is a person's private vision expressed in aesthetic forms.

A day of birth is a glorious event.

The potential of the psychedelic drugs to provide access to the interior universe, is, I believe, their most valuable property.

I begin my day online and end my day online. I like to prepare myself for the next day and have a sense of closure before I go to bed.

Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.

Life is too short to read inferior books.

I've got a great place, it's a country house

Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse.

I guess I usually write when I'm in a really intense headspace, because it's my form of self-therapy.

A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he