To go through life and call it yours - your life - you first have to get your own pain. Pain that's unique to you. You can't just dip into the common bin and say 'That's enough!

A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave.

That's what his stare has been saying to me all this time: 'At least I galloped - when did you?

There is now, in my mouth, this sharp chain. And it never comes out.

Until we meet someday.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

It's customary when great events happen that the U.S. punishes its friends and rewards its enemies.

Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.

Well, the family always was bright, and brightness, as you know, decays brilliantly.

With my hours, I don't hang out with anybody. I work and come home to my Upper West Side apartment.

I'm generally interested in what people believe and what works for them, what gives them hope, what inspires them, no matter what it is.

Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other.

That is why my pictures don't look like modern art. It's some sort of timidity on my part I'm sure.

Stand in that reverent attitude to the whole universe, and then will come perfect non attachment.