I am holed up in a small village where I am doing my own work and it feels great. I have a small gallery and not many people find me, but I am happy being left alone and doing what I love.

My fabulous architect godfather and mentor told me once that striving toward a goal - or perfection - gives one focus and direction, which is a helluva lot better than chasing one's tail.

If one is constantly challenged, one grows. If one becomes complacent, one stultifies.

Art is a business, like any other.

I refer to my non-productive periods as fallow times. I think they are essential.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

If you knew what I would become in the future, would you have treated me the same way today?.

I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true terror is the kind that men feel towards their imagination. (from Super-frog Saves Tokyo)

...the government in Beijing continues to define itself as Marxist-Leninist, though 'Market-Leninist' would be rather more apt.

The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.

The universe will always remove what is no longer serving you.

People have preconceptions about women of a certain age.

The Constitution of the United States doesn't change the powers of the president based on the number by which you get elected.

In one word, one should desire of God desirelessness. For desire alone is at the root of all suffering. It is the cause of repeated births and deaths. It is the obstacle in the way of liberation.

The problem with holding a grudge is that your hands are then too full to hold onto anything else.