I've always had an affinity for growing things.

Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing.

A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral.

This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality. Embrace this moment, remember: we are eternal all this pain is an illusion.

Life is too short not to create something with every breath we draw.

People have to follow their hearts, and if their hearts lead them to Wal-Mart, so be it.

Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability To lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here

Desert, in generally, is a very good place to find yourself. Or lose yourself.

Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.

If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.

The trick is to use the drugs once to get there, and maybe spend the next ten years trying to get back there without the drug.

Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don’t know why, and if we do find out why, it’s decades later and knowing why doesn’t matter any more.

Sorrow is not itself evidence of maladjustment but of the adjustment process itself.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.

My ideal prom date would have to be cute, funny, sweet, nice.

I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work.

Believing you can achieve a goal is vital to reaching a goal.

Usually, old ladies tell me to find Jesus. Look, I'm just trying to find some chai and a good vegan muffin.

There's just no more compelling a story, no more compelling an issue, no more compelling a locus of human suffering than Sudan.

People are often vain of their passions, even of the worst, but envy is a passion so timid and shame-faced that no one ever dare avow her.