I saw the lovely arch Of rainbow span the sky, The gold sun burning As the rain swept by.

But calm, white calm, was born into a swan.

When I dream, I am ageless.

The sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper,/ set the clouds/ to one great roof of flame/ above the earth.

Outwardly I am 83, but inwardly I am every age, with the emotions and experience of each period.

Only of one thing I am sure: when I dream I am always ageless.

there is something dangerous about mirrors. ... What dynamite we handle when we lift a mirror or bend towards one! I seldom do.

During much of my life, I was anxious to be what someone else wanted me to be. Now I have given up that struggle. I am what I am.

Little I ask And that little is not granted." There are few crumbs In this world any more.

To a life that seizes Upon content, Locality seems But accident.

At a touch, he explodes like a snapdragon into loud purrs.

I'm a bad man. I need to understand the past. It illuminates the present.

Within the mystery of death, love stands guard and waits, filling the moments that "are" with itself, so that the moments to come will never be empty, never devoid of someone so loved.

Every woman deserves a Man who not only responds to her words, but to her silence as well!

Acid gave me a clinical, unblinking look at madness, and I discovered I wasn't brave enough to be insane.

I just go and play hard. That's who I am.

Christianity in its ideas was never the art of the possible.

Recycle your pain, allow your pain to reach you to greatness.

It is habit for me to discount myself before somebody else does it for me. Better to get in the first lick

The great person never loses a childlike spirit.