All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write.

Yesterday and tomorrow cross and mix on the skyline. The two are lost in a purple haze. One forgets, one waits.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar.

Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence.

It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.

Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.

She did not care what a ludicrous picture she might be painting, a fat happy old lady in her night gown, swinging on a small little swing in the dead of the night.

Whatever kids are into, that might be their thing.

Everyone is fragile. Everything beautiful is fragile

You want to know the way to raise money? Put a transaction fee on Wall Street, so maybe we can curb some of the speculation and raise some money.

MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic.

Everybody who wants to be in a band should be made to join the marines.

I am what is called a professor emeritus—from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be.

I want to get back to my foundation. And my foundation was my mechanics and the way I repeat them in such a dynamic way.

You cried when He took away your drop of water, not knowing He'd saved for you, the sea.