Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.

Home is not where you live but where they understand you.

The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer.

Woe to humanity, should only a single animal have a seat in the Last Judgement.

Aviation will give new nourishment to the religious sprit of mankind. It will add airspace to those other great heighteners of the cosmic mood: the wood, the sea, the desert.

If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.

There are often some hundred times, a thousand times, before you can really see it for the first time.

Home isn't where our house is, but wherever we are understood.

Enthusiasm is the most beautiful word on earth.

In every work of art, the artist himself is present.

The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother.

I am not protecting myself or preaching you my story, Reasons will be many but life will move on even in painful journey.

Problems don't get better with time they become better when you find bravery. Success demands that you fight your fears.

The beauty of wisdom lies in simplicity and humility.

I have always identified with Joan Didion's depiction of Los Angeles and Southern California, ever since reading 'Play It As It Lays,' 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' and 'The White Album.'

What you are going to be tomorrow, you are becoming today.

What? Okay, back up. How in the hell do you 'turn up missing'?

I have a problem with being a hero, but that's another problem.

I want to put any number of assorted 'ists' - such as relativists, deconstructionists, destructivists, postmodernists, the more maudlin kind of pacifists and feminists - firmly in their place.

Silk does for the body what diamonds do for the hand.

Giving birth to something that could possibly change the lives of millions of people for possibly decades, hundreds of years, whatever the length of time the run is, is a great feeling.