You don’t become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America.

Japanese poetry does what poetry does everywhere: it intensifies and exalts experience.

When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that’s news. If they aren’t, that’s news too.

My heavy heart has gone this way before.

Did you know I staged the first performance in America of At the Hawk’s Well?

I’ve been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.

Imperceptible It withers in the world, This flower-like human heart.

Harvey, Galileo, Copernicus do not seem occult to us, but they did so to their contemporaries, hierophants of the mysteries of Natural Law, revealers of the secrets of a New Order of the Ages. After all, the movement eventually came to be called the Age of Enlightenment.

Ex-cons always say, “You never know what makes the wheels go round until you’ve done time in the joint.” This is even more true of psychiatric hospitals. It is a perfect mass hypostatization of society, the organization of the Social Lie.

Bohemia is a commune in which the Revolution is over and everyone is a member of the aristocracy.