I've deprived my family in order to buy books. No doubt there is a special punishment in hell for such self-indulgence. Perhaps I shall be struck with blindness among the rarest known to men.

Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.

Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated, not annihilated, not absorbed.

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.

There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

You think football builds character. It does not. It reveals character.

I just consider myself an artist. I dont really rap. I dont really sing. I just do what I feel is good, and people like it.

You cannot go into the womb to form the child; it is there and makes itself and comes forth whole-and there it is and you have made it and have felt it, but it has come itself.

Kelly, there are people in Somalia who would die for a banana.

As always after drinking too much, I felt like my own ghost trying to take it's first solo walk outside the body.

Grief is the doorway to a man's feelings.

What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.

Photography, like any other art, is a form of communication. The artist is not blowing bubbles for his own gratification, but is speaking a language, is telling somebody something.