It’s almost always sadder to stay than to depart

I was a frustrated astronaut all my life. I grew up at a time when space seemed to have no boundaries, and lots of us presumed humans would be living on the moon and landing on Mars.

There were always people like the pope. They serve a certain function, of course. They subsidize us. But, they don't create anything and they must never be allowed to stop the artist from creating.

I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work.

Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause.

Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.

If you follow your bliss you will find a path laid out before you that has been waiting for you all along and you will begin to live the life you ought to be living.

Anything you can imagine probably is doable, you just have to imagine it and work on it.

And once begun, change cannot be reversed.

Fame is a can of worms I haven't really had to contend with.

There is nothing unholy or degrading about sexuality in itself, for by that means men and women join in a process of creation and in an expression of love