I've just washed my hair and I can't do a thing with it!

Love is an orchid which thrives principally on hot air.

Impermanence is the very essence of joy-the drop of bitterness that enables one to perceive the sweet.

each separate flower has a magic all its own.

I've always thought my flowers had souls.

Silence always gives consent.

When we come to the sundown road, we need all the love we have managed to take with us from the summit of the hill.

A letter has distinct advantages. You can say all you want to say before the other person has a chance to put in a word.

Married and unmarried women waste a great deal of time in feeling sorry for each other.

The things that are ours cannot be given away, or taken away, or lost. We break our hearts, all of us, trying to keep things that do not belong to us — and to which we have no right.

Heart-aches are forgotten, tears lose their bitterness, and like a leaf of lavendar in a store of linen, so does Memory make life sweet.

I think I’ll dismember the world and then I’ll dance in the wreckage.

There are only two kinds of people in the world that really count. One kind's wheat and the other kind's emeralds.

It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men.

Aside from women, I don't know. My work doesn't function the way Robert Frank's did.

If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.

One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought

Mexico is a pretty poor country, but they are maintaining a free, high quality public education system, not for everyone of course but pretty substantial.

I want to get to the stage where nobody can tell how a picture of mine is done. What's the point of that? Simply that I want nothing but emotion given off by it.

Gynaecologists are very smooth indeed. Because they have to listen to woeful and sordid symptoms they develop an expression of refinement and sympathy.

To me, my style is comfortable.