i hugged myself as a child & told Myself that everything was perfect in the petrichor The smell of pure innocence & earthy & earthly Innocence that stays in the clothes I only wear on good days…

Please don’t tell me you know just how I feel--you don't.

We just can't trust the American people to make those types of choices.... Government has to make those choices for people.

The sweetest flower that blows I give you as we part. For you it is a rose For me it is my heart.

Take my assets - but leave me my organization and in five years I'll have it all back.

Is an egg a vegetable?

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

I just play the little guy, except I play him through dance.

The true mystic is always both humble and compassionate, for she knows that she does not know.

We are alienated, so alienated that the self must disguise itself as an extraterrestrial in order not to alarm us with the truly bizarre dimensions that it encompasses.

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest huts, in the dirtiest corner. And my mind is drawn toward these things by an irresistible force.