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

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.

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.

I started to paint in the year 2000. I never thought of going to an art school, even though I loved art.

But we have reason to think that the annihilation of work is no less a physical impossibility than its creation, that is, than perpetual motion.

As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you're doing good in my book.

Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important.

If I have achieved anything in my life, it is because I have not been embarrassed to talk about God.

I need a healthy injection of cynicism right now.

I wish i could change my mind as easily as I change socks But then I don't change socks so easily

Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.

We have to make a mark, even if it's only a scribble.

Brooklyn is the only place where a guy can open up a candy store sell no candy and gross over eight million dollars a year.

Pleasures seem solid in their pursuit; but are mere clouds in the enjoyment.