“If you ask me what I want to achieve, it's to create an awareness, which is already the beginning of teaching.”

“Here, then, is what I wanted to tell you of my architecture. I created it with courage and idealism, but also with an awareness of the fact that what is important is life, friends and attempting to make this unjust world a better place in which to live.”

“If you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything.”

“I don't want you fellows sitting around asking me what to do. I want you to tell me what to do.”

“If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.”

“I want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a ceremonious validation of what you already show me.”

“I want you to invent it. I want you to have that skill. To create your own reality. Your own set of laws. I want to try and teach you that.”

“I don't do what I'm told, but I might do what you want if you ask me nicely.”

“A poem should go beyond what you already know, and if it’s going to go beyond what you already know, a poem might say something that begins to have you question what side you’re on, which, in turn, might begin to have an audience question what side you’re on…”

“What do you want from me?" he asks.
What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell him.
More.”