Fear is a lack of love, just as darkness is a lack of light.

The world said to conform, the world said to settle for less, the world said to compromise and no one would know... so I made my own world.

Fear is only my ego's deluded perception that it is possible to experience a lack of love in my life.

Sometimes the most complex problems can be solved with the simplest solutions.

People stagger, but they pick up a tattered thread and wind it back onto a spool.

If we want to be free [get liberated], don’t compete. As long as there is competition, the other person will hide his faults and we will hide ours.

Those who cannot perceive are no better than those who cannot see...Those who cannot empathize are no better than those who cannot perceive...

Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory

Make me chaste and To what excesses will men not go for the sake of a religion in which they believe so little and which they practice so imperfectly!

The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement

Creative people should always be striving, they should always be hungry, they should be looking for the next place to go.

I'm a country boy. I hate New York. But that's where things happen, so I use it as a base for stories, I know enough about it. But I have to keep going back there.

I think there's a large segment of the mainland population that does not really understand the number of territories that are part of the United States.

I try to find my way in the world you know, I try to be somebody instead of just, make money off of everybody.