As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar.

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.

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.

People sometimes ask me, because of the blacklisting, "Do you hate the government? Don't you hate white people?" No, it's greed that's the problem.

People who are less happy, I find, are always consoling those who are more.

Life is short and we have scarcely begun to live when we are called to die.

The shoe is very much an X-ray of social comportment.

Don't make me laugh, I'd much rather cry.

The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having engaged in it more fully than any other people.

Told you, Rose. Get too close to the sun, and you'll burn." -Edward Elric

I do think it's important for young women to know that magazine covers are retouched. People don't really look like that.

We can hold to the iron rod even if others slip away and a few end up mocking us from "the great and spacious building."

Perhaps, thought Talon, there was a path in between. A way to shed their ignorance without losing their souls.

My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick.