My goal is to do something outrageous every day.

Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

I enjoy my wrinkles and regard them as badges of distinction - I've worked hard for them!

Old age is an excellent time for outrage.

A healthy community is one in which the elderly protect, care for, love and assist the younger ones to provide continuity and hope.

There are six myths about old age: 1. That it's a disease, a disaster. 2. That we are mindless. 3. That we are sexless. 4. That we are useless. 5. That we are powerless. 6. That we are all alike.

When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say.

Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.

Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.

The best age is the age you are.

Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Water was how the desert would bring everyone together. The antelope's daily prayer, weighing the mortal need of water with the mortal danger of obtaining it.

Ocular infidelity is unfortunately rampant in this so called "artist's world.

My favorite book is always the one I'm working on at the moment

The poem is at last between two persons instead of two pages. In all modesty, I confess that it may be the death of literature as we know it.

What is glory? It is to have a lot of nonsense talked about you.

To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.

Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives

The keyhole is my lens as a writer.

I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it.

I really couldn't say how famous I really am, that's for the history books to decide. But I'll probably be pretty up there.