Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.

I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.

Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way.

Something that is yours forever is never precious

Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.

Art begins . . . when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed with the inside of the person who is seeing it.

I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art.

All beginnings are hard.

I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.

Two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul

…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and plan properly for the future.

The first time I saw her, Everything in my head went quiet.

Once we become tethered to the network, we really don't need to keep computers busy. THEY KEEP US BUSY.

There is so much hope in a little flower and so many flowers in a little hope!

I do not play games. There is not time for it. When I get through with work, I don't want anything that requires the working of the mind.

Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it.

As I continued through Cicero's pages, I found much more material celebrating my way of life.

New York City isn't Chuck E. Cheese. We don't have ball pits for the kids to play in. We have titty bars and crack.

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

When you have seen the things I have seen and traveled all over the world, you would not be honest to yourself and the world to [look away].

I am very proud of my name. My full name is Richard Treat Williams.