"What's a fuck when what I want is love?"
- Henry Miller
"Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am."
"Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself."
"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware."
"Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is."
"Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything ..."
"I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object."
"Ik kwam er achter dat ik er mijn hele leven heus niet naar had verlang om te leven - als wat anderen doen tenminste leven genoemd kan worden - maar wel om mezelf te kunnen uitdrukken."
"Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies."
"I have found God, but he is insufficient."