At a touch, he explodes like a snapdragon into loud purrs.

But calm, white calm, was born into a swan.

When I dream, I am ageless.

The sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper,/ set the clouds/ to one great roof of flame/ above the earth.

Outwardly I am 83, but inwardly I am every age, with the emotions and experience of each period.

Only of one thing I am sure: when I dream I am always ageless.

I saw the lovely arch Of rainbow span the sky, The gold sun burning As the rain swept by.

there is something dangerous about mirrors. ... What dynamite we handle when we lift a mirror or bend towards one! I seldom do.

During much of my life, I was anxious to be what someone else wanted me to be. Now I have given up that struggle. I am what I am.

Little I ask And that little is not granted." There are few crumbs In this world any more.

To a life that seizes Upon content, Locality seems But accident.

I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.

Real affection comes from the face. Those political leaders, when they meet, they are always hugging, but not very genuine. Deep, sincerity comes from face and eye.

No one checked to see if I had a place to live or food to eat, and at 14, I found myself basically on my own.

...the majority of people cannot endure the bareness and futility of their lives unless they have some ardent dedication, or some passionate pursuit in which they can lose themselves.

Thus, during the winter of 2003 I ventured into a new arena as a professional photographer.

My father influenced by his very life, his very example and the environment that I was brought up in. But, he did not encourage or discourage any of us. He let us make up our own minds.

I know the streets, I know the system, I know poverty, and I know how it feels to be 15 and not have a safe place to go.

Most writers write haphazardly. The actor is fighting unjustified words all the time.

The surest way to bring goodness to yourself is to make it your intention to do good for somebody else.

There's rises and falls and ups and downs in all music.