It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to become more than what we were.

For better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to make them real.

Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz.

A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.

Find out what you like and what you hate about life. Start doing more of what you love, less of what you hate.

And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field.

If you do anything well, it becomes enjoyable. To keep enjoying something, you need to increase its complexity.

The task is to learn how to enjoy everyday life without diminishing other people's chances to enjoy theirs.

Flow is hard to achieve without effort. Flow is not 'wasting time.

Write down each day what surprised you and how you surprised others. When something strikes a spark of interest, follow it.

Entropy is the normal state of consciousness - a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable.

I felt like some part of my soul was ripped out and put under a microscope for criticizing.

His life was gentle and the elements So mixed in him that nature might stand up

Speaking to a lawyer about pictures is something like talking to a butcher about humanity.

It's as easy to give away a million as a hundred if you have not got either.

I think that things are poetic when they don't have a boundary. Without rules. My life is poetic.

It seems that the brain has a "small world" architecture - or at least the cortex does. Everything can connect to everything else in a few synaptic steps.

My most famous drama in England is quite controversial. It's something called Men Only, and it's rather a shocking exploration of male sexuality.

In order for him to believe sincerely in eternity, others had to share in this belief, because a belief that no one else shares is called schizophrenia.

You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.

Remember that your natural state is joy.