If you can't understand the blues, you don't know much.

You have to really have a taste for being alone to be a writer..

We live in a very gynophobic society.

Not being happy really is my fear..

I fear for the democratic system. And I fear for our liberties. Only a small group of people fights for our liberties. Once we start on the slippery ….

I was never trained for anything.

I do not sing politics. I merely sing the truth..

Life had sure been simpler when I hadn't dated..

I am not a Hemingway aficionado..

I saw my bulky person in the windows of the passing storefronts and wondered, when will that man there find himself to be loved?.

There must be nothing in my daily conduct that, copied by another, could lead that one into unholiness..

It’s not what you do some of the time that counts, it’s what you do all of the time that counts..

Nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog..

I didn't go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road..

I'm far too middle-class to morally object to a paying job..

Nothing good comes out of depression..

Yes. I've been asked to pose nude, but I never have, and I probably never will..

In the moment of appreciation we live again the moment when the creator saw and held the hidden likeness..

So many see themselves as aggrieved; so few see themselves as aggrievers..

Jen, we did it. Everyone's free now..

Nothing good ever comes without a price..