If only we could live two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, and the second in which to profit by them.

I'll do my life work, sticking up for the love between man and woman.

A snake came to my water trough On a hot, hot day, and I in pajamas for the heat, To drink there.

Let there be an end ... of all this welter of pity, which is only self-pity reflected onto some obvious surface.

You can't insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.

My belief is in the blood and flesh as being wiser than the intellect. The body-unconsciou s is where life bubbles up in us. It is how we know that we are alive, alive to the depths of our souls and in touch somewhere with the vivid reaches of the cosmos.

It's not art for art's sake, it's art for my sake.