Without the gospel we hate ourselves instead of our sin.
Of course, your ideas can be stolen. . . I used to think it was immoral; now I think of it as a compliment. . . Ultimately, an idea isn't yours; it's only your take on something.
Sometimes people say I should see a therapist, but I don't want any therapist wrecking my weirdness.
If you have a success, the terror is how on earth can you follow it up.
My big struggle has been how to expand my mind without being able to expand my physical experience of the world.
You have to get something down, and then find ways of working in complexity and different layers of meaning. . . My first drafts are usually the ravings of a delusional fantasist.
You have to put yourself to one side and get away from the 'Victorian poet' model where you are the universe. You have to do everything you can to take your ego out of the equation.
Beyond matter is spirit and in spirit there is nothing but love.
The point is, the political reporters are the ones who no longer understand the ritual they are covering. They keep searching for political meanings in the tepid events when a convention is now essentially a human drama and only that.
I've made peace with the fact that the things that I thought were weaknesses or flaws were just me. I like them.
The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as formidable as possible, the second as pleasant as possible, to the participants.