The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

The sunflower is mine, in a way.

Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

At 11, I could say ‘I am sodium’ (Element 11), and now at 79, I am gold.

It has been very erotic and provocative for people to wonder about my feelings for women.

I am almost a vegetarian, and I meditate, do yoga and love to hike.

Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race or people, barbaric or civilized

The inmates are ghosts whose dreams have been murdered.

A city is the place of availabilities. It is the place where a small boy, as he walks through it, may see something that will tell him what he wants to do his whole life.

It's easier to believe in aliens than in gods.

Adolescents are in just as much trouble in Native America as they are in the white community.

I hate this bizarre policy of protective exclusion, because it effectively writes me off the page.

Aand in the end, Having my freedom, boast of nothing else But that I was a journeyman to grief?