the world has been fair cruel if you've never known the love of a dog!

Love is an orchid which thrives principally on hot air.

Impermanence is the very essence of joy-the drop of bitterness that enables one to perceive the sweet.

each separate flower has a magic all its own.

I've always thought my flowers had souls.

Silence always gives consent.

When we come to the sundown road, we need all the love we have managed to take with us from the summit of the hill.

A letter has distinct advantages. You can say all you want to say before the other person has a chance to put in a word.

Married and unmarried women waste a great deal of time in feeling sorry for each other.

The things that are ours cannot be given away, or taken away, or lost. We break our hearts, all of us, trying to keep things that do not belong to us — and to which we have no right.

Heart-aches are forgotten, tears lose their bitterness, and like a leaf of lavendar in a store of linen, so does Memory make life sweet.

In the biggest and the smallest I sleep but at the same place I stay.

Shoes need feet to walk! Everything needs something to function!

You don’t have to be dead to leave a legacy.

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.

I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?

If you remember the ‘90s, you weren’t there.

Every day you run into artists on the streets in SoHo or other creative people you want to do something with. There's nothing to match that chance encounter.

Reality TV is a totally different animal than the infomercial world.

The role James Baldwin played in my life is incommensurable as stated above. He helped, along with a few others, to shape the man that I am today. My debt to him is invaluable.