The goddess has never been lost. It is just that some of us have forgotten how to find her.

I'm a bit uncomfortable, truth be told, with being seen as an expert, because there is always so much more to learn. I see myself as a perpetual student of the goddess.

I did not have to believe. I only had to wonder.

Nothing grows well without space and air.

The two old men were as still as the stone bench on which they sat, as though their lengthy communion with the element had turned them into statues.

If you drink anymore, you're going to be positively flammable.

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

Setbacks and fear are inevitable. The thing that distinguishes the ultimate successes from the ultimate failures is this: What do you do with them?

The pictures do not ask you to help these people, but something much more difficult; to be briefly, intensely aware of their existence, an existence as real and significant as your own.

The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dictionary

You can't suffer over two things at once.

Work hard on your job and work harder on yourself

I do see a big difference in the American work ethic compared to the British work ethic in a lot of artists.

Visions of glory, spare my aching sight! Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul!