No matter what it is, pick yourself up and go on to the next project

I'm one of those people who thinks you can have a happy life and still be an artist

Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously, or you'll become affected, pompous and boring.

The world doesn't end just because one thing goes wrong.

Pigs are not that dirty. And they're smart, strange little creatures. They just need love.

I like to pick my own vegetables.

I felt little awkward about taking one boyfriend to see a film starring another boyfriend.

I'm not afraid of aging.

Making it big in this world is such a rip-off, you gotta keep your head together or it can be totally without meaning

But I never let a fantasy get away, because I always stop to analyze it.

In school the kids thought I was freaky because I made straight A's and daydreamed a lot

The world is always greater than your desires

The schools, the courts, the media - all seem determined to erase Christian influence from public life and confine religion to the four walls of the church or home.

It's very hard to get pretentious about beer. You can become knowledgeable and start to talk with a highfalutin' vocabulary. But you can only go so far with beer, and I've always liked that.

There's always a race against time. I don't think for one moment that life gets better. How can it? One's body starts to fall apart.

When you find that a book is poor ... waste no more time upon it.

Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.

When I look in the mirror, I see an ever-unfolding process.

I felt that God could be realized only through service. And service for me was the service of India, because it came to me without my seeking, because I had an aptitude for it.

The joy of painting lies precisely in the challenge of memory and the challenge of translation from the lived experience to the two-dimensional or three-dimensional symbol.

He gets through too late who goes too fast.