Art is not an end in itself but a means of addressing humanity.

A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it.

We stand on the shores of a Mystery, carried by the beauty of the horizon into fantasy that gives birth to our reality. So live like each moment is filled with gold.

Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past.

...when a reporter is quoting Sid Blumenthal on president Bush, you know he's scraping the barrel.

I was a snot-nosed teenage skater at one point, who listened to only punk records and hung around people that had that idea of what is okay to do and what isn't okay to do.

Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.

You can be sincere and still be stupid.

That wit is truly amiable, which gladdens and enlivens every thing, which shines with a lustre gentle, but not faint, and powerful, but not glaring.

If you're interested, you will do what is convenient; if you're committed, you'll do whatever it takes.

Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.