No honest writer today can possibly avoid being influenced by Freud through his pioneering work into the Unconscious and by the influence of those discoveries on the scientific, philosophic, and artistic work of his contemporaries: but not, by any means, necessarily through Freud's own writing.

There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright.

Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.

The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself, I had come to love just the words of them, the words alone.

The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.

I choose to worship not believing in God and government should not thrust a religious idea down my throat.

In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.

There is but one kind of love; God is love, and all his creatures derive theirs from his; only it is modified by the different degrees of intelligence in different beings and creatures.