Leaving San Francisco is like saying goodbye to an old sweetheart. You want to linger as long as possible.
I'm gay. I just didn't think it was anybody's business.
And the walls became the world all around.
And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming wild things.
Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.
Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card. ” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it. ” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.
I wish you all good things. Live your life, live your life, live your life.
I never want to be just one thing - I want to be multidimensional.
But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods.
You can love me or you can hate me.
Grief is like a wheel that goes around and around the world.