The moon invented natural rhythm. Civilization uninvented it.

Reality whistles a different tune underwater.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

The beet is the most intense of vegetables

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful.

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

A poem is a meteor.

When your life is stormy, take a refuge to a port: To music or to literature, in short, to art, to any kind of art!

The art of biography is more difficult than is generally supposed.

The worst thing you can do to a kid is tell them that their dreams are invalid.

Photographers should follow their own judgment, and not the fads and dictates of others.

Everything gets better with time, and time is forever.

Dearest Jesus, holy child, make thee a bed, soft, undefiled, within my heart, that it may be a quiet chamber kept for thee.

Make money, lose money - who cares? The idea is to enjoy it.

We believe that no nation can survive politically free but economically enslaved.

I Can't Conceive of Thinking that I'm Too Old to Do What I Love