An artist is completely amoral in that he will rob, beg, borrow, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.

Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantlyall the time, is having to accept it.

I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or white, is to take them for what they think they are, then leave them alone.

I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.

When ideas come, I write them; when they don't come, I don't.

We shall not kill and maybe next time we even won't.

Knowing not grieving remembers a thousand savage and lonely streets.