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It is possible to learn the will of nature from the things in which we do not differ from each other. For example, when someone else's little slave boy breaks his cup we are ready to say, It's one of...

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally...

Natural talents begin to blossom early, but they get nipped in the bud by what I call "the parent, the peer group and the professor" who tell us we should be concentrating on something like computers...

It's not contagious, you know. Death is as natural as life. It's part of the deal we made.

In the midst of life we are in death

As for LSD, I highly recommend it. We had a fine, wild weekend and no trouble at all. The feeling it produces is hard to describe. 'Intensity' is a fair word for it. Try half a cube at first, just sit...

The secret is not to make your music louder, but to make the world quieter.

All I was afraid of is saying good-bye.

This is how you start to get respect, by offering something that you have.

Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear>

Oh, thou clear spirit, of thy fire thou madest me, and like a true child of fire, I breathe it back to thee.

We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

Also, I do seem attracted to trash, as if the clue--the clue--lies there. I'm always ferreting out elliptical points, odd angles. What I write doesn't make a whole lot of sense. There is fun and...

Look at the way people try to make points of contact with others when they meet. Look at the way you instinctively try to establish whether somebody you meet for the first time knows somebody you...

You are born into your first one. Your mother plays the lead. She shares the stage with your father and siblings. Or perhaps your father is absent, an empty stool under a spotlight. But he is still a...

I too long sometimes for the prairies but S. Dakota has changed so much it is a disappointment when we go back. I think going back anywhere is apt to disillusion anyone. With

Just the other day the AP wire had a story about a man from Arkansas who entered some kind of contest and won a two-week vacation--all expenses paid--wherever he wanted to go. Any place in the world:...

All must pay the debt of nature.

We are all sleeping avatars of God, with amnesia.

It is much more pleasant to feel that God heard you and said no, than to feel like no one is listening to you

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

Albert Camus, from Leonard Cohen's reading list, makes an appearance here, from Notebooks, 1935–1951: What gives value to travel is fear. It is the fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far...

The minute we look, we cease being afraid.

If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order to survive, to protect some aspect of myself that was now in constant retreat.

Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great. We are talking of only a painting.

What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you squarely in the eye and said he would rather die than be killed in combat

Our purpose is that which we most passionately are when we pay attention to our deepest selves. – Carol Hegedus, as cited in

He told himself that he could only survive through madness. Only madness can accommodate faith and disbelief, glory and shame, love and deception, honesty and lies. As for the mind, how can it bear...

Lines formed at Ruby Pier- just as a line formed someplace else; five people, waiting, in five chosen memories, for a little girl named Amy or Annie to grow and to love and to age and to die, and to...

You know a person cannot live at a high pitch of emotion, the feelings become dulled by a natural, unconscious effort at self-preservation. You

If you wish, I shall go personally to your City and knock together the heads of Perlith and Galooney.

Is it not curious, that so vast a being as the whale should see the world through so small an eye, and hear the thunder through an ear which is smaller than a hare's? But if his eyes were broad as the...