There is a certain transcendent joy in creating a thing of beauty. But even more fulfilling is to become a being of beauty.

When we are honest, we admit how agreeable it can feel to be singled out for favored treatment. The biggest barrier to equality for all is that inequality for some feels good.

There’s danger in thinking joy is a matter of location. If we can’t find joy where we are, we probably won’t find it anywhere.

There are things we see with our eyes, sitting high and looking out. And there are things we see with our hearts, sitting still and looking in.

In the end . . . . . . . Stand where we feel led. Stand straight, stand tall, and try to remember that other folks might be led to stand elsewhere.

Write letters to your grandmother. She will love it. And leave you money in her will.

When love takes you by the hand and leaves you better, that is home. That's the place to stake your claim and build your life.

Love, even that love which is imagined, is sometimes all we have to get us through.

Reality has a long history of not altering itself to make us happy or comfortable.

We just never know. We think we do. We think we have life figured out, and in our arrogance we become hard. But life has a way of humbling us, of softening us.

know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you have it.

Reason obeys itself

The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.

Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project.

I still collect toys. Toys are a reflection of society. They are the tools that society uses to teach and enculturate children into the adult world. Toys are not innocent.

I don't ever want to make taking pictures into another way of saying 'Here I am'. Because I'm as here as I want to be.

Take what you've learned and love someone again. Find someone to love and love without condition. This is why we're all here.

Every message, regardless of form or content, is an expression of a need.

My uncle used to sit me on his lap and play "ventriloquist", only I wasn't wearing pants.