When your life is over, the world will ask you only one question: 'Did you do what you were supposed to do?'

There are no wrong people—only the wrong expression and the wrong perception.

Love melts my heart in the sacredness of its pureness.

My nose is broken, " I said. Damn that Dumbo. Made me self-conscious."My ankle's broken, " he said."Then I'll come to you.

Ten years ago, desalination was the crazy aunt in the attic. That's changed. It is now entering the mainstream and being taken seriously.

Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them?

One cat just leads to another." [Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

Art is like turning corners, one never knows what is around the corner until one has made the turn.

Extraordinary beauty can be a curse to the one who possesses it. one pays a dear price for fame and fortune

The Hank Williams Syndrome: Come to Nashville, write some good songs, cut some hit records, make money, take all the drugs you can and drink all you can, become a wild man and all of a sudden die.