Love is like quicksilver in the hand, Leave the fingers open and it stays, Clutch it, and it darts away.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you, kid. Let's go."

"All memory can do is scream for touch."

The farther behind I leave my past, the closer I am to forging my own character.

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

If you tremble indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.

Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.