How important to set aside time each day for the unknowable. How important to reach out: it doesn't matter that I don't yet believe.

The sun isn't your friend. It didn't laugh at that stupid little joke. But when the business failed, when your beauty failed, when you should have gone home but spent the night, the sun kept shining.

After forty years, with whatever authority comes from lived experience, I can say: You, too, can create something. You can nurture it and watch it grow.

Its better not to be born than falling in love.

The television image sanctified, conferred identity. The more familiar the face, the more to be trusted.

Once you clear that mind clutter out, the doorways for what you desire are open when you start using NAPS!

When in public poetry should take off its clothes and wave to the nearest person in sight; it should be seen in the company of thieves and lovers rather than that of journalists and publishers.

The concept that you are not ingesting rotting flesh sort of sums it up for me.

I have a great deal of confidence in myself and in my faith.

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.

If you think the market’s 'too high' wait 'til you see it 20 years from now.

Give worshipfully. Our giving is a reflexive response to God's grace. It doesn't come out of our altruism - it comes out of the transforming work of Christ in us.

You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes the adventure of painting.