It didn't matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.
What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.
Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believe. . . that for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens.
When the eye fails to find beauty-alias solace-it commands the body to create it, or, failing that, adjusts itself to perceive virtue in ugliness.
How delightful to find a friend in everyone.
The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even - if you will - eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.
For darkness restores what light cannot repair.
Young, gay and stuck in Arkansas? Sounds like a horror flick.
My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
There was always a slug on the lettuce. This was too good to be true. He had never trusted Jester, and didn't trust David. He wasn't going to let his gaurd down just yet. Being carful had kept him alive this far. There was no reason to stop being careful now.
I have all but killed myself for Photography. My passion for it is greater than ever. It's forty years that I have fought its fight. . . I am not fighting to make a 'name' for myself. Maybe you have some feeling for what the fight is for. It's a world's fight. . . All that's born of spirit seems mad in these days of materialism run riot.