All kids, I think, are creative, but they get it pounded out of them in school.

You have to sniff out joy. Keep your nose to the joy trail.

Digital imaging allows both groups to rise above the limitations of mess and clutter and mechanics, and apply our talents to creating images limited only by our imaginations.

As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar.

Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel.

The key is in remaining just aloof enough from a painting so that you know when to stop.

The paintings are transferred from my computer to a disk, and I can hand it to the printer this way; or I can modem the painting to the printer over the phone lines from my house in Hawaii.

Some people say I was very brave, but I really just didn't know any better. All I had was my originality.

I work closely with the printer to get the final print the way I want it.

You have to leave room in life to dream.

Everybody's creative. We create our songs and our paintings, our families and our children. Every one of us is on the cutting edge of the future.

He gives me the impression of being a spoilt child.(on Liszt)

The sensation Ihad experienced vanished like smoke from a snuffed candle, leaving behind wisps of namelesslonging.

Mothers are only human, you turn it over to God and then you just wing it.

The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence.

Iran is the world's top sponsor of terrorism, and I am not going to stop until that problem is properly solved.

Lovers may come and go, there was the memory of blood, the low call.

Pleasure alone makes existence worthwhile. A pleasure-seeker has a difficult time parting from life.

People will believe thousands of different lies in succession rather than confront a single scintilla of truth.

THE NAME OF THE WIND marks the debut of a writer we would all do well to watch. Patrick Rothfuss has real talent, and his tale of Kvothe is deep and intricate and wondrous.