And we came forth to contemplate the stars.
the voluntary relinquishing of responsibility for our lives and our actions is one of the greatest enemies of our time.
People say, ''I'm a woman trapped in a man's body'' or ''I'm a man trapped in a woman's body,'' but I say ''I'm trapped in a body. ''
Art and life really are the same, and both can only be about a spiritual journey, a path towards a re-union with a supreme creator, with god, with the divine; and this is true no matter how unlikely, how strange, how unorthodox, one's particular life path might appear to one's self or others at any given moment.
And when in doubt, be extreme.
Even as a teenager we got interested in the Beats, Dada, and Surrealism, and so on. What drew us to those was that their lives were their art. It wasn't something they did separately. Reading biographies of artists of that kind was what was fascinating to me, more than the stuff they made. We became convinced that life and art is really the same thing.
After thee accumulation of too much history we have lost our innocence, we cannot easily believe in any explanations. We describe rather than feel, we touch rather than explore, we lust rather than adore.
I'm concerned about how Hillary Clinton's going to govern.
Attention is the ability we have to discriminate and to focus only on that which we want to perceive.
I have a feeling that you're riding for some kind of a terrible, terrible fall. But I don't honestly know what kind. . . . It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in looking as if he might have played football in college. Then again, you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'It's a secret between he and I. ' Or you may end up in some business office, throwing paper clips at the nearest stenographer. I just don't know.
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.