My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirely dependent on my father because that's how it was in those days.

For some reason, people find me funny. It's quite hard to define why a thought is funny. It's even harder to define why a person would be funny. It's a word that I can't define at all. But whether I know quite what it is or not, I seem to be it.

Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year.

I am not at all a politician. I don't think I'm cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

I bought a Yamaha-1 and I was doing 180 miles per hour home on the 405 and that's really, really crazy but I did it.

Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.

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