Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Give us this day our daily mask.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

Generalised anger and frustration is something that gets you in the studio, and gets you to work - though it's not necessarily evident in anything that's finished.

Needy and boring parents tend to have needy and bored children.

Sometimes WRONG is worth the FUNNY!

In order of importance to me are: 1) the long term trend, 2) the current chart pattern, and 3)picking a good spot to buy or sell.

It's easy to hate on things that are close to your world that aren't exactly what you're doing.

To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature.

There's no substitute for live work to keep a band together.

Everybody sacrifices something in an attempt to reach what they think society wants.

One day a guy tried to rob me on the street, and I had no money. So I charged him.