The artist will have had his revenge for being made to wait, A revenge not only necessary but right and clever-- Simply to leave him out of the scene forever.

Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to.

There is no way to ease the burden. The voyage leads on from harm to harm, A land of others and of silence.

How shall I speak of Doom, and ours in special, But as of something altogether common?

Soon the purple dark must bruise Lily and bleeding-heart and rose, And the little Cupid lose Eyes and ears and chin and nose

Nostalgias were peeled from it long ago.

Go then, O my inseperable, this once more,

I came hoping to see those eyes, but instead I return with my heart, leaving behind only flowers.

People didn't think animals thought or remembered or had minds! They most certainly do: any pet owner knows more than a lot of scientists about animals.

I can't bear to be around people who are bland or bored or uninterested (or to employ them).

New York is traditional New York, you know what I'm saying? It's the stomping ground of the hustlers and go-getters

I would love to fly privately, but unfortunately, I don't. I don't summer anywhere either.

Value inner attunement as much as you value outer attainment.

I was shooting one day and it struck me that I was the age that Shirley MacLaine was when she played my mother. I had to sit down. I had to get a chair, okay? It was a weird moment.

There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they actually can't tell the truth without lying.

A lot of the music I listen to is indie rock. It's not on the radio.

Putting the makeup on, not a problem. Taking the makeup off, every night.... it makes your face swell.