I own my life. And only mine. And so I shall appreciate my person. And so I shall make proper use of myself.

As soon as you take out a pencil and paper with the Indians, you're one thing to them - an anthropologist - and what they tell to anthropologists is always distorted.

Peace means loyalty to self. ... And loyalty to one's self means never a gap between thought, speech, act.

Life has always poppies in her hands.

I can still smell dog poo everywhere. It stinks.

I think laughter may be a form of courage.... As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.

People say, like, 'Are you a regular person?' 'Well, I'm not a robot, if that's what you're asking, I really am a person.

KING, n. A male person commonly known in America as a "crowned head," although he never wears a crown and has usually no head to speak of.

The living need charity more than the dead.

I realized that a lot of the great directors that I admire from [Ingmar] Bergman to [Fredrico] Fellini re always shooting, then going into the editing room, and shooting again.

Your poems will happen when no one is there.

I like most kinds of music. So I haven't got a bag, as they say... except the big black one in the hall outside.

You can be with one of the most beautiful women in the world and still be unhappy.