"The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in."

"To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the moment of waking to the moment of sleep."

"The American ideal, after all, is to be so rich that you don't have to deal with anybody."

"People who believe that they are white, and people who believe that they are black, and people who believe that they are some other color, are all, equally, deluded."

"Artists are here to disturb the peace."