Art is an elastic sort of love.

Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.

I have never really been a great artist. I have been a human being that has loved art, which is not the same thing. But I have loved and believed in art and the idea of universal brotherhood so much, that I have put everything I have into them, and I have been blessed.

The secret to the fountain of youth is to think youthful thoughts.

I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But I could not walk into a hotel in America and get a cup of coffee, and that made me mad.

You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.

Sex was a pleasurable form of exercise, like dancing.