You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details only.

Everything you can imagine is real.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

God plan the best pathways for every sacred soul.

And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.

I could learn how to press 'Record' on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine.

My pictures are airbrushed.

Friend, you are a divine mingle-mangle of guts and stardust. So hang in there! If doors opened for me, they can open for anyone.

You can have a poem like "B-Movie" and sum up thirty conversations that people have had on the subject, but I wrote it down, and other people didn't.

You can't do anything about yesterday and you can't do anything about tomorrow. It's just today.

I had to wait nine days for a letter that said a lot of very silly things.

Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what you do out of necessity.

It is a luxury to put our interests first. It is an honor to put the interests of others before our own.