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Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Getting to St. Mary's College was a big deal for me because that essentially led to me getting to go to NYU.

  • I've had a reoccurring dream about hanging out with Britney Spears, so maybe it would be fun to chill with her for a bit? Like, see what makes her tick. I had this dream once about Britney, that we were going to get married or something, and so I had to meet her parents but we were stuck on a beach in these sand dunes - and at this point between the dreams and self-portrait, you know way too much about me.

  • I think you can decide how much of yourself you're willing to make public.

  • I believe we would be happier to have a personal revolution in our individual lives and go back to simpler living and more direct thinking.

  • Look at all our old men in pubs. Look at all our young people on drugs.

  • Man treats woman as his own property and not as being capable of feelings, like himself. The way man treats women is much worse than the way landlords treat servants and the high-caste treat the low-caste. These treat them so demeaningly only in situations mutually affecting them; but men treat cruelly and as slaves, from their birth till death.

  • While I was sleeping, I had a beautiful dream that all the people of the world got together on the same wavelength and began helping each other.

  • Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry. When someone intrudes into the poet's life (and any sudden personal contact, whether in the bed or in the heart, is an intrusion) the poet loses his or her balance for a moment, slips into being what he or she is, uses his or her poetry as one would use money or sympathy. The person who writes the poetry emerges, tentatively, like a hermit crab from a conch shell. The poet, for that instant, ceases to be a dead person.

  • ...this beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this was so beautiful it stopped my breath...

  • A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy.