I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it - keep going, keep going come what may.

The sunflower is mine, in a way.

Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God's grace means.

Imagining and visualising the situation prepares you for any challenge

We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.

Sometimes the best way to keep peace in the family is to keep the members of the family apart for awhile.

'Election' is a movie I'd give a leg to cross the director's name out and put mine in.

Mine is not an autonomous imagination.

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross-roads.

I mostly write short stories. They are best written in a continuous creative process. You have a feel of immediacy.

I made straight A's and never got into any trouble, and I still impose those standards on myself. So writing is my chance to escape and become the sleaziest, scummiest role.