The problem with touring isn't the traveling and the shows, it's the vegetal state you get into.

Forgive them even if they are not sorry

Desire is individual. Happiness is common.

Sometimes I've sat outside, not to tan, but as a result of that I ended up tanning slightly.

Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power.

Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.

With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?

Art is the image of life, it's purpose simply to enhance it.

Make sure your heart is singing right until the day it stops.

The best artists are the ones that work the hardest, and if you work hard enough, you'll eventually experience the happy accidents that are art.

I don't really care about clothes, but it's about wearing something that gives you social confidence.

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self.

The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.

Gary Snyder's The Practice of the Wild is an exquisite, far-sighted articulation of what freedom, wildness, goodness, and grace mean, using the lessons of the planet to teach us how to live.

If the weather is good I go into the nearby wood - there I am painting a small beech forest (in the sun) with a few conifers mixed in. This takes until 8 'o clock.

Have no respect whatsoever for authority; forget who said it and instead look what he starts with, where he ends up, and ask yourself, "Is it reasonable?"

Your life is a gift and how you respond to it - what you do with it matters. That's where I start.

Never lift. Never stop believing.

Writing, of course, it's not all in your head. Not talking about the 'manual' act of typing here either, but that, when your fiction's really working, your whole body's involved, and then some.

Until time and space exist... I vow to come back for the benefit of other beings.