People like being alike, joining up, and being part of something.

If you have one person you’re influenced by, everyone will say you’re the next whoever. But if you rip off a hundred people, everyone will say you’re so original!

Don’t worry about a style. It will creep up on you and eventually you will have to undo it in order to go further.

I don't like religion very much. I think it's all about people trying to be very certain about things that are very uncertain.

Making art, I try to just gently persist, instead of having freak-outs where I'm like, Oh, my god, I'll never draw again. You are going to draw again, so you might as well relax.

If you keep pushing paint when you're tired of it, you lose sensitivity. I can only focus on painting for a few hours, so I'll stop and work on something quite different.

I pray, but who I pray to I'm not exactly sure, especially when I'm praying for more money.

I notice inspiration when it comes by. I don't sit down at my desk and try to write.

For those he has ignored, he allows them this. He allows them God, their only ally. Places to worship, but no one to teach.

God made big people. And God made little people. But Colt made the .45 to even things up.

I like desires like childrenand their playsthat tease me now and then intoknowing life.

Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.

While all the things you believe and know exist in their own right, they're ways of looking at existence, but existence is infinite - it's beyond all ways of looking.

Consider carefully before you say a hard word to a man, but never let a chance to say a good one go by. Praise judiciously bestowed is money invested.

It's my experience that very few writers, young or old, are really seeking advice when they give out their work to be read. They want support; they want someone to say, "Good job."

Chaos is not dangerous until it begins to look orderly.

If at first you don't succeed, have a cup of tea.

Whatever relationship you have, man or woman, you have to be very attentive and you have to be a very good friend to them regardless of what they do.