Everybody wants to get along with everyone else in the sandbox. I'm that kind of kid, you know what I mean? That will never change about me.

I love flexing theater Muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.

Playing a flute is like writing a book. You're telling what's in your heart...It's easier to play if it's right from your heart. You get the tone, and the fingers will follow.

Paintings helped to change my life. I'd still be living a life of disaster without it.

He who spends too long regretting his ruined crop will be neglect to plant next year's harvest.

You see, Adrian, we do many things. We assign meaning to some, and think of others as lacking it. But who's to tell when we're right - and when we're wrong?

Isn't it odd that some groups view being legally equal to other groups as 'oppression'?

You know, from my point of view, I'm the luckiest cat on the planet.

The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.

And when you finish reading, read some more.

The danger, I find, is that you can become too formulaic, like some commissioned portrait painters who develop a methodology.

When I'm doing a drawing, I'm personifying the place that is empty. A place that is unmarked.

You must swear never to go on the dole. Never be bored. Find something to do. And don't yawn.

An attitude's growth never stops.