My choice of a life of adventure may well have been a result of the fact that action raised my blood pressure giving me enough energy to live.

I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call it Eternity.

I am curious about grownups, not children.

Like nature, our economic system remains, in the long run, stable and rational...We welcome the inevitable seasons of our economy! How foolish of us.

I do like to live in other people's homes. I enjoy being a guest. I am an inexpensive guest. When one lives in another's home he can enter into the psychic kingdom of that person.

There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.

Take a look at the books other people have in their homes.

A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.

Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library.

Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky.

There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital.

People say, Well, you went on television, it enlarged your readership. It did not at all, not at all. I might as well tell you, I lost some readership, because the profound audience felt somehow bothered by my too easy manner.

Photography was the first foreign language of my artistic expression.

It seems that what I really want is a drug that will increase my consciousness of others, not myself.

Chance was to work in the garden, where he would care for plants and grasses and trees which grew there peacefully. He would be as one on them: quiet, open hearted in the sunshine and heavy when it rained.

Life is a state of mind.

A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels.

The popular culture says ... Do what you do, your life is predestined, like the installment plan on your house. There's not much you can do about it. Make your payments, live it, get sick, die, don't make any trouble. It is the Master Charge of destiny. Try to get your high credit rating.

She seemed to belong to that pagan, primitive kingdom of birds and forests where everything was infinitely abundant, wild, blooming, and royal in its perpetual decay, death, and rebirth; illicit and clashing with the human world.

Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort.