Strength was not how fiercely one punched, but instead, how one would summon the courage to take a blow for someone else.

I wrote... Neon Ballroom in that time where I hated music, really everything about it, I hated it.

Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness- happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.

As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion.

None of us are really dumb and none of us are really smart. We're in the middle.

Bend color names which should be made of neon or copper tubing. Place an object on a surface - trace the object - then bend the object - leaving some part of it attached.

One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides.

To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.

You should avoid hedging, at least that's what I think. You should be ashamed to die until you've made some contribution to mankind.

If you see a good fight, get in it.

Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.

We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.

The only disability in life is a bad attitude.

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.

Greece's position in Europe will not be put in doubt.

I've tried to make a book that's accessible to the ordinary, intelligent reader. Very often books that cover this kind of subject are written by academics, for academics. But I am not an academic.

A religion that cannot stand a little laughter must be a very rotten one.

For me there was never a lot of glamor involved in being a junkie, it was about trying to hide the puke and bloodstains on my shirt.

Even if you're a guy and you don't believe in dancing, you should try dance cardio. It's really fun!

Fake it till you make it.

I think that actually people in my situation should be paying more tax.