Fundamentally, we are all in the same place: we're born, we live, and we're going to die. In between, we'll have joy and we'll have sadness.

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.

I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.

This is the book I never read ~ These are the words I never said ~ This is the path I'll never tread ~ These are the dreams I'll dream instead

I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

You have to face things, have faith in what you do and go for it. Think, 'What's the worst that could happen?'

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.

Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear.

Guilt: I'm sorry. I made a mistake. Shame: I'm sorry. I am a mistake.

Magnanimity will not consider the prudence of its motives.

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

When I'm painting outdoors, I only have time to think about what I'm saying, not how I'm saying it.

When it comes to dressing, comfort is overrated. A little discomfort probably means your clothes fit and they're not pajamas.

Somebody is always reflectively monkeying with some of the parts of an infinite universe - monkeying as distinct from aping.