I have spent many years trying to recover a common language, one that can cross the distance between people.

To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown.

... where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be.

We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again.

The door to the soul is unlocked; you do not need to please the doorkeeper, the door in front of you is yours, intended for you, and the doorkeeper obeys when spoken to.

Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you.

We make the path by walking.

It’s all right if you grow your wings on the way down.

There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.

The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.

Every noon as the clock hands arrive at twelve, I want to tie the two arms together, And walk out of the bank carrying time in bags.

Surround yourself with those conducive to you being your highest self.

Action springs not from thought but from a readiness for responsibility.

Theater is all about foyers and conversation and digesting what you've seen.

My goodness, everyone is planting grapes, even a neighbor with only five acres.

I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity.

I think to put death on screen where it isn't that turns it into comic book time and there I think by desensitizing an audience, you really do open the possibility that someone is going to kill.

The dog and the rabbit are telling us not to chase unattainable material goals.

Pure souls, didn’t I tell you not to be seduced by this colorful world for I am the Ultimate Painter.

Bodily exercises are to be done discreetly; not to be taken evenly and alike by all men.

What I call loaded, I'm not. What other people call loaded I am.