I most resemble Benjamin Button. I evolve. I attach myself to the heartbeat of whatever is going on at that particular time, or I just chart a new path.

The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.

Censoring what you say is one of the ways in which people who are not nice can take away your personal freedom

Trees are massacred, houses go up — faces, faces everywhere. Man is spreading. Man is the cancer of the earth.

The object of defense is preservation; and since it is easier to hold ground than to take it, defense is easier than attack. But defense has a passive purpose: preservation; and attack a positive one: conquest…. If defense is the stronger form of war, yet has a negative object, it follows that it should be used only so long as weakness compels, and be abandoned as soon as we are strong enough to pursue a positive object.

A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I’m writing about New York.