Reducing the thinking required to take the next action increases the likelihood of the desired behavior occurring unconsciously.
I don't feel, finally, that my politics are entirely determined by the fact that I'm a gay man.
If you [c]annot find your [h]eart's desire in your own backyard, you never lost it to begin with
I love reading; it's a great way to avoid writing.
One wants to move through life with elegance and grace, blossoming infrequently but with exquisite taste, and perfect timing, like a rare bloom, a zebra orchid. . . One wants. . . But one so seldom gets what one wants, does one?
I have kind of an almost religious feeling about poets. I usually refuse to meet them because I admire them so much. Except for Poe.
Justice precedes beauty. Without justice, beauty is impossible, an obscenity. And when beauty has gone, what does a cameraman do with his eye?
To be lost in spiritlessness is the most terrible thing of all.
To see a shadow and think it is a tree that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think it a shadow can be fatal.
Sometimes when things get kind of frantic, it helps to call my husband Steve, because I think he's got a real good sense of where everything's gonna be in a few years.
If one has an enlighened teacher and you come to this person with love, they will show you the ways of love.