Nothing will do me any good unless I learn to control this body of mine.

It's punishment to be compelled to do what one doesn't wish.

The rainbow is elusive, and its colors but the illumination of tears.

I am profoundly in the D's - discouraged, depressed, disheartened, disgusted.

I had not thought of violets of late, The wild, shy kind that springs beneath you feet In wistful April days.

Every new fad or fashion at once has its denouncers from the pulpit, platform, professor's chair.

Picturesqueness is a lost art. We may expect at anytime to hear that a collar ad is blazing its electric lights atop of the largest pyramid.

Didacticism is the death of art.

Blue. My God! I'm so blue that if I were a dog, I'd sit on my haunches and howl and howl and howl...

Willow trees are kind, Dear God. They will not bear a body on their limbs.

Women can dream at 9 in the morning and at 10 o'clock at night - it doesn't matter.

Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over.

There are so many scripts and they are fantastic. I think I would like to do something different, maybe something smaller.

There was never any question about it: we [with Yoko Ono] had to have a 50-50 relationship or there was no relationship, I was quick to learn.

He, who praises you for what you have not, wishes to take from you what you have.

Humanity is not perfect in any fashion; no more in the case of evil than in that of good. The criminal has his virtues, just as the honest man has his weaknesses.

With materialization in play you have magic in your fingers and you become the wizard.

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Literature is a great staff, but a very sorry crutch.

What can you say about Guy's cooking that hasn't been printed on a packet of cigarettes?