Life is not a popularity contest

Every breath is a giveaway dance between you and the plants.

My goal in life is to get as old as I possibly can, to have as much fun as I possibly can, and then die.

Some people say it's easy to lie. This may be true for them, but the hard part is remembering the lie because a lie has no memory.

Craving for the top of the mountain is a feeling to yearn for, an endurance we learn from.

Teaching is not a lost art but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

I have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman's face.

Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.

The goal is always to make a nice tableau painting with the voice. The more color I can find, the more shadow I can find - the goal is always to make more nuance and colors.

Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?' What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing

The art which is grand and yet simple is that which presupposes the greatest elevation both in artist and in public.

I won't play for a penny less than fifteen hundred dollars.