If you can explain a poem, it is not a poem. Poetry has to be inexplicable.

It's very hard to try to be a cultural . . . people who organize cultural things . . . it's very complicated. And more so in a country like Guatemala.

The Indians are a marginal people in Guatemala just like I am a marginal person in the first world.

You could buy 100 lottery tickets and not win, or you could buy one and get it.

You never know who will see your images hanging. And I like that. I think you never really have control over the things that you do.

I think it's impossible to know the destiny of things.

I'd prefer to invite the artists simply to work and have fun with Guatemalan artists. To share missions of life. Maybe that is more important than seeing an exhibition.

I think my relationship with life has changed - I want to make more complex images than before. Complex in the sense that I try to put in a lot of information, sometimes contradictory information.

I am an architect. I try to feel the transparency in contemporary buildings and I try to understand the transparency in Zen poetry. I just want to mix all those things.

I prefer to give a dollar to a thousand people.

Usually the Indian people are outsiders who have to look up at the people who look down.

Keep moving!” “Bea’s arguing with the floor.

It is fellowship, this most fundamental need on our way toward achieving our highest expression of the human experience, which Jiu Jitsu provides.

[In the 1960s]...you could take LSD but you couldn't wear a pantsuit.

Acting is everybody's favorite second job.

Leadership involves the heavy burden of responsibility, and the fear of getting it wrong can paralyze a leader.

I have never been a fashionista or someone who puts a lot of thought into what I wear, and I dress to be as comfortable as I possibly can.

My age makes me think how valuable life is. How bad is something like Parkinson's in relation to not having life at all?

Donald Trump is gonna immediately start canceling some executive orders and repealing Obamacare.

Ordinary people are capable of doing extraordinary things, and that's what it's all about. They must count.