There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

True ambition is trying to paint yourself out of a corner

The Universe has gifted us with abundance of everything, whether it’s love, happiness or prosperity. We should tap into the higher frequency to receive it.

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone it has to be itself.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

But this was a moral question, and the answer to it may not have been legally relevant.

All the arts serving human desires and needs are derived from the breath that Godsent into the human body.

Kiss me out of desire, but not consolation.

Sometimes a piece of sun burned like a coin in my hand.

Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.

I have a daughter who is a sophomore in college and another who is in the 11th grade of high school.