I liked the movie Splash a lot when I was little. I think we taped it when it was on TV, and then would watch the movie fairly often.

I draw in my sleep (dream of drawing) a lot. I don't think I have ever drawn anything in real life while I was sleeping, though. I do keep a pad near my bed, just in case.

Sometimes I can't draw or take a picture of something, though, if the color is a certain way and the only way to see it is to see it in person.

One time I covered a wall with 8.5×11 pages of drawings, which made things feel a little bit different in the room.

I draw rainbows whenever I see them, with my black ink pen. When I have collected enough, I thought I might make a book called Black-and-White Rainbows.

Don’t waste time making money ... use Cosmic Ordering.

Poetry takes courage because you have to face things and you try to articulate how you feel.

Baby, I'm yours until two and two is three.

It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.

Nothing that was real ever died, only names, forms, and illusions.

I think by not participating in the current political debate, hopefully I'm sending a signal that will help set a tone.

I’m interested that light has thingness itself, so it’s not something that reveals something about other things you’re looking at, but it becomes a revelation in itself.

Even in writing an annual report, the unconscious plays a role.

The leaves of the trees are like the thoughts of the men: Some are bright, some dark; some fresh, some rotten; some healthy, some diseased.

I think what Osama bin Laden does is to take the fact that some peoples lack hope and lack opportunity, and twist it to his own ends.