Why do we fear the dark as unavoidable defeat when it alone is constant, and we'd starve if it stopped watering the lawn of dreams.

To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, “I am listening to this music,” you are not listening.

In creation alone there is the possibility of perfection.

It is better to forget about yourself altogether.

God save us always,' I said 'from the innocent and the good.

I've got everything I had 20 years ago, except now it's all lower.

I want to know what it is, this 'sin' they say I've committed.

To this day I cannot see a bright daffodil, a proud gladiola, or a smooth eggplant without thinking of Papa. Like his plants and trees, I grew up as a part of his garden.

People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.

I took pictures of the objects and artifacts that Patti [Smith] would show to her friends because I wanted to document them.

What was once obvious to them was no longer quite as obvious. Why was it that humans lost sight of truth so quickly?