(I'm trying to improve my typing. notice I now leave a space after a comma, I'm very proud of myself!)

Letter writing is an excellent way of slowing down this lunatic helterskelter universe long enough to gather one’s thoughts

Our old experiences, memories and fears guide us down the present path. It's not so much that you are the artist; you are the conduit.

Every one of us sees 'green' differently. So everything is an approximation of understanding.

Art becomes a spiritual process depending upon the degree of commitment that you bring to it. Every experience becomes direct food for your art. Then your art teaches you about life.

I don't think I am scared of intimacy, but I am frightened of making a mistake. offering more than I have, or expecting more than you can give. - Matt Sedon

It's the nasty and the accident that form the foundation for elegance that comes later.

You cannot separate art from life or spirituality. They are bound together in a single unit.

Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows

She who licks her lips knows the taste of her lover's desires

Art is like therapy; what comes up is what comes up. It may be dark, but that's what comes up. You may want to keep some of it in a drawer but never judge it.

It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.

Truth doesn't pay homage to creeds. Creeds must adjust themselves to be compatible with the truth.

It had only taken me six years to change from a ten-year-old to a sixteen-year-old

I had spent my whole life feeling homesick. The only difference between the two of us was that I didn't know what or where home was.

I had never been able to get a car that said how much I cared about the environment until I drove electric.

The problem is not one of prediction. It is one of imagination.

Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.

I always give homeless people money, and my friends yell at me, 'He's only going to buy more alcohol and cigarettes.' And I'm thinking, 'Oh, like I wasn't?'

Don't wait for anything; simply because what you are waiting for may never come!

The rules of soccer are very simple, basically it is this: if it moves, kick it. If it doesn't move, kick it until it does.