My soul is a canvas stretched across four wooden corners and tacked with copper nails that sink into the edges of timber like teeth. My art is nothing less than my salvation.

It's not who you know, but who you are that matters most.

If it hurt me to have to give up a painting I figured it had to hurt them to write the check. That's how I came up with the price for my work.

I aim to remind the warrior within us all to navigate through the unknown that we may meet the morning, improved and unenslaved.

Being an artist means seeing things and never having the ability to shut your eyes.

If you see a shot, shoot.

I believe I do my job the way I have to do it.

My confidence allows me to do things my way and help people make a decision. People like the idea of me just being me.

I see myself today as Sitting Bull trying to bring a voice of Easternism, holism, community-based thinking to a very Western culture.

As set forth by theologians, the idea of 'God' is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing.

There was the Missile Crisis, but one can't attribute to the [J.F.] Kennedy years anything like the problems that [Franklin] Roosevelt stood over and surmounted.

My desire is to be anonymous, isolated, quiet, peaceful, and concentrated.

Conquering the world and changing it, I do not think it can succeed.

The wine itself has aesthetic value; but what it is for a wine to have aesthetic value cannot be understood without making reference to the experience to tasting it

It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.