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

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.

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

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.

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

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

How much time? Not as much as I had yesterday.

A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

Passionately commit your life to fulfillment of your dreams.

I love fashion, obviously, but I hate trying on clothes.

Our private property must be sacrificed.

I'd like to retire at 50 but I don't want to sell papers in the middle of London on a Zimmer.

No generalizing beyond the data, no theory. No theory, no insight. And if no insight, why do research.

I was never a hugely successful theatre designer. I painted a lot of scenery and did the lighting, and my lighting business grew out of that.

Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work.

I guess the ultimate luxury professionally is to be able to change your direction, to work in another medium.