The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.
Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.
The death of a library, any library, suggests that the community has lost its soul.
The arts are not a way to make a living.
Sometimes I wonder if he wasn't born dead. I never met a man who was less interested in the living. Sometimes I think that's the trouble with the world: too many people in high places who are stone-cold dead.
What good is a planet called Earth, after all, if you own no land?