I think the leaders inevitably express the people they are leading.

Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.

Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death.

I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless.

Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in.

I always felt that I had anxiety of survival in terms of livelihood even when I was making plenty of money.

The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it.

Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.

Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.

People like me, who care about printing, constitute the tiniest lunatic fringe in the nation.

I think if you touch ordinary people, they're simply ordinary people, the way they've always been. They work hard, they don't have really as much as they should.

Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.

Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work. The curtain of mechanization has come down between the mind and the hand.

There is something about Midwest in general, that has kind of an underdog quality.

Improv is what helped me overcome the anxiety that I was feeling sometimes. It's the thing that pushes me to be present, and to keep moving through all of the what-ifs that go through my mind.

My activism was, and is, unknown, unannounced, but somehow effective.

A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections.

So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.

If you're not confident in the authority of the Scriptures, you will be a slave to what sounds right.

The art of the novel is to arrive at that artless point where your characters become more real than yourself.

You basically only discover a new thing once.