So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.

Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures.

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe

You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can't sleep at night, because your beast-creature ideas want out and turn you in your bed. It is a grand way to live.

I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot.

It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups in the intellectual gazettes.

We all are rich and ignore the buried fact of accumulated wisdom.

And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right.

If you want to keep on getting what you are getting, Keep on doing what you are doing".

Energy work is priceless. It makes every day extraordinary and transforms the mundane to the holy.

Contrary to popular belief, some animals would not have each chosen to be a human being, if they were given the choice between being what they are and being human.

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument." [Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]

There was something about that form of comedy that's just difficult. It never really felt like you could just fully commit to all the colors that you carry with you.

Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye.

Why had he never appreciated the miracle that he was, brain and nerve and bounding heart?

So, that is my final lesson from the universe - you just do what you need to do, and stay on track.

I was a terrible Sugar Babies addict, so I had more cavities than the surface of the moon.

Skateboarding is a way to let your body control the mind.