The teachers liked me. In grade school, they make you copy pictures from books. I think the first one was Robert Louis Stevenson.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.

You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.

I smoke pot because I want to go to heaven before I die

Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.

It’s not what you are that counts, it’s what they think you are.

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

As long as there's breath in the flesh, there'll always be desire for more. Being content is a gift, other millionaires and billionaires actually die empty and less fulfilled.

If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.

The American people in Congress have got to ask themselves a very simple question. Why are we the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people as a right?

Our culture has gotten too mean and too rough.

The Lord won't confirm a lie.

When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself.

Healing and positive life change comes from having the courage and spiritual conviction to look squarely at life's impermanence.

Sometimes one must try anything, it is no disgrace. On the contrary, it is a sign of wisdom.

If self is a location, so is love.

You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers.