You never realize how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.
One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.
I’d rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.
The world was simply and sheerly divided into ‘the aware’, those who had the experience of being vessels of the divine, and a great mass of ‘the unaware’, ‘the unmusical’, ’the unattuned.