All monsters have their fits of depression.

A caprice is handled like a stew, and the pepper is added at the last minute.

An error of the passions is not the flowering of a great love, and merely the beauty of the human form is not capable of inspiring an eternity of mad attachment.

Rock and roll, big band, the blues. He loved them all. He would close his eyes and with a blissful smile begin to move to his own sense of rhythm. It wasn't always pretty.

If an overgrown child draws something on a piece of paper, you can't ask the paper what the drawing is supposed to represent.

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.

Those who deserve love the least need it the most.

So many of my relatives didn't get a chance to go to school, and my own Daddy couldn't read or write.

The appreciation of pleasure can be the anchor of humanity.

The few men who do a hand's turn around the house expect gratitude and recognition, so sure are they that, though it is their dirt, it is not their job.

If you seek security in life, unknowingly you seek death. The only truly secure place is your grave.

I was on my own union council for twenty-odd years.

I don't cringe when I think of doing old material. A lot of the people have been with me through the years.