Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom....

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.