Everybody has their thing they like or don’t like to see. It’s all in your head. That’s why people take their own pictures, because it’s difficult for someone else to capture what you seek.

I always say that women should wear whatever makes them feel good about themselves. That’s what I always try to do.

A person who is truly authentic doesn’t need to play a role in life, we think, but can simply be him – or herself.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

The little man is still a man.

Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.

All of us, no matter how we look born into this world, feel something like the Hunchback. It doesn’t matter if you have a beautiful face or not.

I like having the digital camera on my smart phone, but I also like having a dedicated camera for when I want to take real pictures.

I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool – and I’m not any of those – to say that I don’t write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues.

People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way – in such a way that often nobody believes me!

I specifically did not read other First Ladies‘ books, because I didn’t want to be influenced by how they defined the role. I knew that I would have to find this role – very uniquely and specifically to me and who I was.

If my mother knew I did this for a living, she’d kill me. She thinks I’m selling dope.

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.

I’d like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world’s phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

I tend not to like an awful lot of what is going out under my name now because it is just all product. Who needs it?

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

I’m very free-spirited.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.

The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy that there was value and power in being aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myself.

I look like a woman, but I think like a man.

Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I’ll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master… it’s when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.

Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.

There is no unique picture of reality.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

The ‚I think‘ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‚I breathe‘ which actually does accompany them.

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you’re nuts, and you’re not as popular with girls as you should be.

My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.

I’m not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We’re not ‚celebrities‘, whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They’re what people meet.

The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.

I go through a lot of depression, and I know other people do, too, but I have an outlet that so many people don’t. If you have that inside of you and can’t get it out, what do you do?

Rather be dead than cool.

People see things differently and remember things differently. It’s why if somebody robs a liquor store and there are four witnesses they’ll often disagree.

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

Talk low, talk slow and don’t say too much.

If you deny people their own voice, you’ll have no idea of who they were.

I’d rather tell you how I really feel.

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don’t.

How sweet is the perception of a new natural fact!

The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don’t like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don’t like to be shaped by society.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.