Fame is a spiritual drug. It is often a by-product of our artistic work, but like nuclear waste, it can be a very dangerous by-product.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Creativity occurs in the moment, and in the moment we are timeless.

Anger is meant to be acted upon. It is not meant to be acted out.

No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby or your dream, it is not too late or too egotistical or too selfish or too silly to work on your creativity.

Pray to catch the bus, then run as fast as you can.

Serious art is born from serious play.

The reward for attention is always healing.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness

Fame is not the same as success, and in our true souls we know that.

Timid young artists, adding parental fears to their own, often give up their sunny dreams of artistic careers, settling into the twilight world of could-have-beens and regrets.

Grace is the gateway to heaven.

I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.

God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil.

I read what I feel, and not what I see.

The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very very collaborative.

Look at the subject as if you have never seen it before. Examine it from every side. Draw its outline with your eyes or in the air with your hands, and saturate yourself with it.

I don't see any point in nihilism... just as I suppose the nihilist sees no point in everything else.

I don't want to be a facilitator for other funny people. It doesn't seem smart for me to be in a comedy and not be funny. My spirit can't take it.

Changing the world takes more than everything any one person knows, but not more than we know together.

We can't all do everything.