You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were alive now.

People aren't evil and people aren't good. They live how they can one day at a time. They come out of dust they go back to dust, dusty feet, no wings, and whose fault is that?

What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake.

You make beauty and it disappears, I love that.

England that little gray island in the clouds where governments don't fall overnight and children don't sell themselves in the street and my money is safe.

You can't win every week.

Painting doesn't mean just describing; it's a state of spirit.

I'd go without food if I could have a flower.

How could I go on my travels without that sweet soul waiting at home for my letters?

Parties are a cruel kind of fun.

Paper is like Joyce Carol Oates: white.

I am rooted in the unlimited love of the heart of the universe.

It's not the dying but the manner of it.

Art is meant to strike us with Reality, not allow us to hide from it.

Should we stop celebrating the Columbus day - the day when the first illegal immigrants entered America?

The strength of even the strongest individual can always be overpowered by the many, who often will combine for no other purpose than to ruin strength precisely because of its peculiar independence.

Doing nothing is very tough to do because you never know when you're finished. The upside is that from the moment you wake up in the morning, you're on the job.

I never go with something in mind. I like having an array of generations in my outfits!

Asking anyone what she or he is reading is a necessary part of conversation, exchanging news. So I take recommendations from friends - and I always pass along a book I've loved.

If we put corrupt men in public office and sneeringly acquiesce in their corruptions, then we are wrong ourselves.

Not trying is the surest way of achieving nothing at all.