Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
I used to live on one candy bar a day – it cost a nickel. I always remember the candy bar was called Payday. That was my payday. And that candy bar tasted so good, at night I would take one bite, and it was so beautiful.
My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough, as the same cat crouches.
Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity
A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won’t let go.
the free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.
An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way
Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.
In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.
I don’t like the clean-shaven boy with the necktie and the good job. I like desperate men, men with broken teeth and broken minds and broken ways. They interest me. They are full of surprises and explosions.
Intellectuals say simple things in difficult ways. Artists say difficult things in simple ways.
If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.
What my character is or how many jails I have lounged in, or wards or walls or wassails, how many lonely-heart poetry readings I have dodged, is beside the point. A man’s soul or lack of it will be evident with what he can carve upon a white sheet of paper.
