Art has always got more and more extreme, and it will continue to get more and more extreme.
New York has an electronic heart.
My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.
If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.
I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.
That is my essential reason for writing, not for fame, not to be celebrated after death, but to heighten and create life all around me. I also write because when I am writing I reach the high moment of fusion sought by the mystics, the poets, the lovers, a sense of communion with the universe.
The wheel that squeaks gets the oil.
To have realized your dream makes you feel lost.
When you get down to it, unschooling is really just a fancy term for 'life' or 'growing up uninstitutionalized'.
People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.