Channel your passion into lasting results

The blind pursuit of learning leads to excessive desires—the more you see, the more you want. Excessive desires, in turn, lead to anxiety and misery.

ANDREW: But do you think there’s a line? You know, where you discourage the next Charlie Parker from becoming Charlie Parker?FLETCHER: No. Because the next Charlie Parker would never be discouraged.

[Rape is] nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear.

Don't cry about it. Write about it.

O.K. I'm running out of appetite. Let this swirl— a bit like Crab Nebula— do for now.

My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, "Serve all, love one."

Art should reveal the unknown, to those who lack the experience of seeing it.

The legend of the parting of the Red Sea probably refers to tidal changes in the Sea of Reeds related to the Thera eruption.

If you cannot hate evil, you cannot love good.

I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right.

It is often said that our modern world is incapable of self-government.