"To question with sincerity is the first step toward dismantling dogma. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a humble truth that to love deeply is to give someone the power to heal what words cannot reach — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"In the tapestry of human existence, every trial adds depth to the design. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"'Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era,' the Whitney Museum's 40th-anniversary trip down counterculture memory lane, provides moments of buzzy fun, but it'll leave you only comfortably numb. For starters, it may be the whitest, straightest, most conservative show seen in a New York museum since psychedelia was new."

"But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture."

"Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry."

"I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything."

"People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art."