I don't work from nature, I work like nature.

Everything you can imagine is real.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature

Always drink upstream from the herd.

Okay, well I think the programme is like being screamed at for an hour by a drunk with a strobe-light, but like I said--

Nothing has brought me more love, joy and peace than being a good husband and good daddy.

The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.

There was a time I thought I was a ferret.

No one has the ability, that I'm aware of, to do anything supernatural, psychic, talk to the dead.

I spend so much time like living in the past or the future. I mean, I think most people do, really. And the moments when you're really present in your life can be pretty rare, really.

If there's one thing that really annoys a god, it's not knowing something.

You can't be everything. Nobody is everything. You just do what you do, and you try to do that as well as you can. And if somebody doesn't like it, too bad.