Can I love someone...and still think/fly? Love is flying, sown, floating. Thought is solitary flight, beating wings.

One cannot use the life to interpret the work. But One can use the work to interpret the life.

We are told we must choose — the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if not a series of negotiations between the old and the new?"[Speech upon being awarded the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (Peace Prize of the German Book Trade), Frankfurt Book Fair, October 12, 2003]

Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it's the secret to good sex.

One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.

Life is not about significant details, illuminated a flash, fixed forever.Photographs are.

I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it.

The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth... the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and cars and TV and box architecture, brutalizes the senses, making gray neurotics of most of us, and perverse spiritual athletes and strident self-transcenders of the best of us.

Everything should be understood, and anything can be transformed - that is the modern view.