If only tears could speak, they would tell the agony of the eyes.

Never remember your failures but remember why you failed.

Sometimes we forego things not because we do not want them but because we can't afford to raise them at the moment

I believe that life is written out for you, it maps out your life to make you happy, but what I’ve been living for the past four years is my unwritten life...

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

My father was a civil servant, so having a regular job, being respectable is a big deal for me. Respectable in the sense that I support my family. That's what I mean by respectability.

I loved musicals. I loved being in the school play and being lucky enough to get parts in the school play. But they always took place in some other time and place.

I lost my power in the world because I did not use it.

You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it.

Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.

Love is a sweet thing caught a momentand held in a golden eye.

It's easy to blame other people when things aren't going well.

I would go there quite frequently. I met and became close with John Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern Art. He was incredibly supportive about me working in color.