I never knew I was a surrealist till Andre Breton came to Mexico and told me I was.

Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.

Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.

I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.

At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.

Can one invent verbs? I want to tell you one: I sky you, so my wings extend so large to love you without measure.

I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.

I wanted to tell you that my whole being opened for you. Since I fell in love with you everything is transformed and is full of beauty... love is like an aroma, like a current, like rain.

Sexism and racism are parallel problems. You can compare them in some ways, but they're not at all the same. But they're both symptoms inside the white male power structure.

Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.

I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.

... the lofty mind of man can be imprisoned by the artifices of its own making.

I spent ninety percent of my money on wine, women and song and just wasted the other ten percent.

God has given us evidence sufficiently clear to convince those with an open heart and mind.

The surest thing about me is that I will change my mind.

I was disappointed not to be able to interview Mr. Clinton. I met him two years ago. I was looking forward to talking with him about issues from Africa to terrorism.

Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges?

a perfect piece of architecture kindles that aimless reverie, which bears the soul we know not whither.

I'd like my life to be like a Bruce Springsteen song. Just once. I know I'm not born to run, I know that Seven Sisters' Road is nothing like Thunder Road, but feelings can't be different, can they?

I don't have any ambition.

I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty for Beauty to set the world right.