If you think you know where you're going to be 10 years from now, that's where you're at now. You're just putting it off.

There are people who don't respond to color. That's what painting is. It's color.

If you want to be told what to think, well, I'm not in that business.

A great painting is a great painting.

The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.

If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking

Think about how backstory fits the tale you're trying to tell... p.195

The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.

Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real.

He's stepping up to challenge me. Anybody that challenges me, has got to get dogged out. That's my job.

Life on this earth first emerged from the sea. As the polar ice melts and sea level rises, we humans find ourselves facing the prospect that once again we may quite literally become ocean.

Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be.

Love the road of your life... There is so much beauty to see, so much music to hear, so many flowers to smell, so many thoughts to be thought, so much love to be had, so much Divinity to be felt.

Jack, get a grip of yourself.' I have a grip of myself.' Jack took a grip of himself. It was a most intimate grip; not the kind of grip that you usually take of yourself in public.

Those who are opposed to armed uprising ... must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards.