I have always been curious about other people. I wonder what goes on in their minds, whether they are good, or bad and I wonder about their lives.
For a long time I would go to bed early. [Fr. , Longtemps, je me suis couche de bonne heure. ]
Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness.
Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.
We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
The ostrich is the only animal officially endowed with political direction.
The young artist of today need no longer say 'I am a painter,' or 'a poet,' or 'a dancer. ' He is simply an 'artist. ' All of life will be open to him.
The Zen Master was constantly attempting to break up concepts that people had about what it was like to be a spiritual teacher. We have a traditional image. Each Zen master was a complete character.
Drinking and taking drugs. I think there was also a sort of druggie or trance-like nature to the way that I used sex as a child.