- Growth has its season. There are spring and summer, but there are also fall and winter. And then spring and summer again. As long as the roots are not severed, all is well and all be well.

The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.

Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership.

The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation.

I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call it Eternity

Can the imagination, any more than the boy, be held prisoner ?" - from the foreword to the 1976 edition of "The Painted Bird

A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels.