I paint a tree - I think of how the roots go deep, deep into the earth. How the tree grows year by year toward the sky. How it stands with the winds.

I paint the fog - I think of its fresh moistness - its stillness - its mystery.

I paint the ocean - I think of its vastness - its power - its wetness.

I am the thing that I am painting at the time of painting.

I paint a mountain - I think of its age - the strata formations or what grows on the mountain.

We have a lot of thoughts throughout our entire life, but ultimately we get all to the conclusion of a single thought: Death!

My mother once told me I was like water. Water can carve its way even through stone. And when trapped, water makes a new path.

Life is to short to be little.

You make decisions, take actions, affect the world, receive feedback from the world, incorporate it into yourself, then the updated 'you' makes more decisions, and so forth, 'round and 'round.

I don't pray for anything, but I have used affirmations in the past a few times. They are really a bit more like realizations in that on some level they have already happened.

I'm not sure any narrative model has been more important for me than Benjamin Britten's chamber operas.

The life prospects of an American are more dependent on the income and education of his parents than in any of the other advanced industrial countries.

We were always able to sing and blend well together; that's our gift. But aside from that, we're really two different guys.

Let's boogie,' he (Leo) said. 'Before I come to my senses

A fundamentalist is someone who wants to substitute what he believes for what you believe," Max said. "And someone who thinks he knows the will of God better than anyone else.