Pollution is a necessary result of the inability of man to reform and transform waste.

My public life was so demanding that I wasn't doing the things that I deemed the most important.

I've said this over and over, but I'll say it a million more times - I'm concerned more about the death of a bee than I am about terrorism. Because we're losing hives and bees by the millions because of such strong pesticides.

He found it was as easy to hurl beauty as anything else. (On Robert Mapplethorpe)

I was horny, but I was innocent 'cause I was a real-late bloomer and not particularly attractive. In fact, homely.

I've always considered myself a writer.

I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work.