Learn to draw. Try to make your hand so unconsciously adept that it will put down what you feel without your having to think of your hands. Then you can think of the thing before you.

Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.

The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.

The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old thoughts and beliefs planted by dead men.

You won’t arrive. It is an endless search.

There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped.

I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others.

The thing of course, is to make yourself alive. Most people remain all of their lives in a stupor.

I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.

It was a cold day but the sun was out and the trees were like great bonfires against gray distant fields and hills.

The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.

Simple is clever. Complicated just means you haven’t been clever enough to reduce ‘it’ to its essence.

It wasn't going to be our day on the night.

I often make the mistake of thinking that something that is obvious to me is obvious to everyone else.

Do you think Patrick Swayze now goes up behind people in pottery classes and hugs them just to crack up other ghosts?

If you want to see a comic strip, you should see me in the shower.

The motivation part is all essential in keeping my voice, but there are the human factors of discipline.

Actually, I'm a strong supporter of comprehensive tax reform.

I'm not a politician and I'm not trying to change anybody's mind. I'm just exploring what I see.

You can't vote that water out of the city of New Orleans.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.