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.

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.

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

Life is lie, Living is the truth.

Put aside ambition for public recognition, and simply do what you do because it feels good inside.

My objects dream and wear new costumes, compelled to, it seems, by all the words in my hands and the sea that bangs in my throat.

Why is it only in darkness that we remember what sustained us even in the light?

The only free road, the Underground Railroad, is owned and managed by the Vigilant Committee. They have tunneled under the whole breadth of the land.

You're only human. Let's break free of this gravity of judgment And fly high on the wings of forgiveness.

The day that music is taken for free by the majority is the day that the phrase "sell out" doesn't exist any more.

When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.

When I find a cover song that I like, I'll work away at it until I kind of believe that I wrote it.

Possessiveness destroys love. And they should not be possessed, because that again destroys your love.