Perhaps the itinerant upbringing my brothers and I had has something to do with my continued interest in perspectives different from my own.

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.

When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas.

You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid.

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.

I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.

My job as an artist, as I see it, is to understand and in some cases to take on various ways of thinking about people and the world that are different from my own, sometimes radically different.

At the end of the day, if you’re wasting your time by not investing in yourself, you’re going to waste away—and that would be the greatest waste of all.

And then the great music of which the world is made took him over, beyond thought, beyond control until he heard her cry his name and they fell together off the edge of the world.

We should realize that the average family in America spends five minutes a week on politics.

Compassion is the only one of the human emotions the Lord permitted Himself and it has carried the divine flavor ever since.

The preoccupation with transition and with surgery objectifies trans people, and we don't get to really deal with the real lived experiences.

We now know that climate change is a driver of migration, and is expected to increase the displacement of populations.

Purchasing the Bobcats is the culmination of my post-playing career goal of becoming the majority owner of an NBA franchise.

I'm a big fan of Paco Rabanne's 1 Million.

Some there be that shadows kiss; Such have but a shadow's bliss.

You know it's time to do the laundry when you dry off with a sneaker.