England that little gray island in the clouds where governments don't fall overnight and children don't sell themselves in the street and my money is safe.

People aren't evil and people aren't good. They live how they can one day at a time. They come out of dust they go back to dust, dusty feet, no wings, and whose fault is that?

What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake.

You make beauty and it disappears, I love that.

You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were alive now.

You can't win every week.

Painting doesn't mean just describing; it's a state of spirit.

I'd go without food if I could have a flower.

How could I go on my travels without that sweet soul waiting at home for my letters?

Parties are a cruel kind of fun.

Paper is like Joyce Carol Oates: white.

You're only as good as your next thought of yourself.

The more sincere the soul, the heavier the cross endured.

I'll always remember the day I broke ninety. I had a few beers in the clubhouse and was so excited I forgot to play the back nine.

Without any hope you cannot talk about suffering. If you talk about suffering without hope it's enjoying our euthanization. I tried to avoid euthanization enjoyment.

It is easy to forget how much you have, when your eyes are always fixed on what you have not.

I learned a woman is never an old woman.

I'm just in the business of creating; creating new work inspires you to create new work. It's kind of funny.

Your personal power is not something that is going to reveal itself at some later date. Your power is a result of your decision to reveal it. You are powerful in whatever moment you choose to be.

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.