It might seem a contradiction but... the ability to improvise requires lots of practice. Ask any jazz musician.

With our ignorance, they win, we lose.

We are changing all the time and this never changes.It is not whether we change, it is how much and in what direction we change. These choices are ours can only be made by us

The best thing in life is change. Without change there is no life.

Conscious practice becomes unconscious practice.

Practice is the process of moving conscious action into subconscious and unconscious action.

Nobody can learn for another. Only we can teach ourselves.

We are the sum and synergy of all our experiences.

It is absolutely possible that the impossible is possible.

The "question" is the inoculation against and the antidote for ignorance.

As a camera is an instrument that teaches us how to see when we don't have a camera, writing is a process that teaches how to think when we are not writing.

That moving carcass does but very inadequately symbolizes you....a subtle and immortal spirit.

I want to be the best, and the best work. You have to earn what you get, and you have to work to keep it.

I leaned back against him and rested my cheek on his shoulder. I could feel the river water dripping off of him. "Thank you" I whispered. When I looked up, I saw he was crying.

We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown.

The fireflies o'er the meadow In pulses come and go.

We have a sense that we should be like the mythical cowboy... able to take on and conquer anything and live in the world without the need for other people.

My hand feels touched as well as it touches; reality says this, and nothing more.

I think it was a good challenge for me to get my reactions across without being able to speak.

Private faces in public places Are wiser and nicer Than public faces in private places.

Some people don't listen to my music because they say that I am an artist. And some don't want to go to my gallery shows, because they say I am a musician.