After fifty, one ceases to digest. As someone once said, "I just ferment my food now."

The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.

To me the purpose of art is to produce something alive...but with a separate, and of course one hopes, with an everlasting life of its own.

I can tell a good cowboy by the way he approaches a cow.

The miracle is that a work of art should live in the person who reads it.

If you can make the reader laugh he is apt to get careless and go on reading.

At my public school I had hated every other face for fear the owner was a lord, at university, I was to court the rich while doubting whether there should be great inequalities between incomes.

Be a hard worker. Work and happiness are like mother and daughter. Work brings forth happiness. Hard work brings great happiness. Enjoy life.

We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.

I've got the long hair and kind of androgynous look. It's love-hate; it's sexy, but not sexy. So it's either you get it or you don't.

Stay to yourself, just listen. Do more listening than talking. The more you speak the higher the chances you sayin the wrong thing.

As with eggs, there is no such thing as a poor doctor, doctors are either good or bad.

Curtesie on one side only lasts not long.

150 people die every year from being hit by falling coconuts. Not to worry, drug makers are developing a vaccine.

As I have said before, dancing is for anyone, but not for everyone.

The breath, prayers, and libido of the fingertip must somehow be transferred to the neutral indifference of the key.

I shall cling to the rope God has thrown me in Jesus Christ, even if my numb hands can no longer feel it.