Every day you are bombarded by so many different things. When you sit down to process everything, it can become interesting visually. You can incorporate a lot of those things that you internalize.

It's really hard when you read literature in a language that's not your own. There are all these cultural references you have to be born into that particular language to get.

For me, the more I understand the story of others, the greater I am able to learn and help other people.

Sometimes the mere connection we make with each other can change people's lives. It doesn't have to be something big. The mere fact that you're interested in them makes them happy.

I think every person has a unique story to tell and we each have the different life events that happen to us and sometimes we may feel sympathetic toward a certain aspect of that life event.

It's hard to choose the right word, the right line. This Body Mystery is a small book, but it took me over ten years.

I tried to write poems in rhyme. I tried writing songs. Sometimes I jotted down a thought. I would keep a log of spontaneous thoughts.

I read a lot when I was in school in the United States, and even though writing in English is very difficult for me, I wrote in journals.

Art is really about how you capture different things you see around you and bring them into forms and words and shapes and meaning.

You have to experiment with different mediums and things around you [making art].

This is my first collaboration [with Mary Hamill] so I'm going to learn how it's going to work.

Don’t just GO through life, GROW through it. For Life comes to you only once . . . never to return! Climb the Ladder of Life, step by step.

All is fair in fashion and war.

I sleep with the lights on now. Not because I’m afraid of the dark, but because I like to keep the night as far away as I can.

The problem with communication…is the illusion that is has been accomplished.

When a man is freed of religion he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.

I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building.

I'd been trained as a classical musician, but also as a pop musician. My teacher made sure that everything was available.

The rigid tree will be felled.

In heaven I'll be shocked by those who aren't there, those I didn't think would be there but are. And the fact I'm there at all.

There's no easy way to be free.