I thought that I was an artist. I no longer think about it, I am.

My work has changed my life. My work has saved my life. My life has changed my work.

Through our reading we can travel to other times and other places, into other peoples minds and hearts and souls: it is a transcendent experience.

If you believe, don't worry. If you don't believe you will get all dressed up with nowhere to go.

Find your freedom through questioning everything you hear and see. Be free to choose, from all possible perspectives and opinions, what builds love and harmony.

Face the truth, face it. Don't face the lie, face the truth!

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

Wherever Harry went inside the tiny cottage or its garden, he could hear the constant ebb and flow of the sea, like the breathing of some great, slumbering creature.

There's so much great stuff out there. The artists who've been most formative to me are the ones I've had the privilege to work with over the years.

Without a good cultural policy, without adequate help, we will always have individualists, shooting stars who are rapidly forgotten or who stop painting for a more profitable occupation.

It’s time to move the debate past the dogmatic view that carbon dioxide is evil and toward a world view that accepts the need for energy that is cheap, abundant, and reliable.

It's like when you want to make a house... the technique is very important.

Poets use metaphors and symbolism to construct images. I construct my images in the same way, except that I am using a different form.