It's a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry.
People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.
The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.
Euthanasia. . . is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.
I would call an intellectual one whose instrument of work - his mind - is also his major source of pleasure; a man whose entertainment is his intelligence.
We pity or condemn the communist peoples of the world for being bound in the chains of doctrine. So are we. Our doctrine runs as follows: Our Way is the Only Way.
The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.
I'll always do the guitar parts since it's my main instrument.
I was once doing a question and answer period with the novelist Jane Smiley in a bookstore and someone asked us what our processes were and Jane said hers and then I said mine and Jane said, "Well, if I had a student like that I'd force him never to write like that again because you could never write a novel in the way that you write poetry. "
It's an insane world, and I'm proud to be a part of it.
Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting.