I view art as an inspirational tool.

Everyone can identify with a fragrant garden, with beauty of sunset, with the quiet of nature, with a warm and cozy cottage.

Living might mean taking chances, but they're worth taking. Loving might be a mistake. but its worth making

Violence is spiritual junk food, and boredom is spiritual anorexia.

Literary history is the great morgue where all seek the dead ones whom they love, or to whom they are related.

If you could bring to me a majority of people to say that we're going to have $10 of spending cuts for $1 of revenue enhancement - put me in, Coach.

Every drop of rain hits its appointed target.

I think that if you can achieve a balance, then you appease a lot of yourself and your career and what it takes to maintain in this business for a while

Oh, I was an ugly kid. My old man took me to the zoo. They thanked him for returning me.

The city [ LA] is kind of going through an interesting transition; sort of renaissance time where there is so much going on here. I think it's really exciting to be here.

I don't want people to be inspired or offended by what I do. If you determine your behavior by what [other people] want, you're screwed.

There can be no rebirth without a dark night of the soul, a total annihilation of all that you believed in and thought that you were.