The snug log house looked just as it always had. It did not seem to know they were going away.

If he or she doesn't see or respect your present value nor your future dream the moment you connected there is little or no chance that he or she will do in future.

We may just be specters in this world, but our stories, if they are remembered and retold, become real and solid and alive... Once you hear a story, it becomes part of you. It can't die.

Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.

We do not trust the goodwill of the U.S. They have cut the ties.

I do read, but not as much as I'd like to. I take five books at once and just scan through them.

Even with painting, even abstract paintings, you need the incoming of, light on the canvas.

Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.

I'm going to lower the drinking age to eighteen. If you're old enough to die in Iraq, you're old enough to drink.

While working in advertising, I channelled my creative energy into elaborate escape fantasies: cake making, dog breeding, the Peace Corps.

In order to make a visualization a reality in the world of form, you must be willing to do whatever it takes to make it happen.