Timid young artists, adding parental fears to their own, often give up their sunny dreams of artistic careers, settling into the twilight world of could-have-beens and regrets.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Creativity occurs in the moment, and in the moment we are timeless.

Anger is meant to be acted upon. It is not meant to be acted out.

No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby or your dream, it is not too late or too egotistical or too selfish or too silly to work on your creativity.

Pray to catch the bus, then run as fast as you can.

Serious art is born from serious play.

The reward for attention is always healing.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness

Fame is not the same as success, and in our true souls we know that.

Art is not about thinking something up. It is about the opposite—getting something down.

Family is more than blood

As with . . . even the written word, the remote overview is one more wrenched perspective that developing civilization has glued, collagelike, to the once unified experience of life.

People of God are always people who care about other people and it always comes at some cost.

A writer will always be a writer. It's not a choice, it's a destiny.

What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.

The message to both parties should be right now that we need to find ways to work together to speak to the American public.

The fact that I have been successful merely means that I can write and illustrate in my own way.

Nothing will be left, Nothing in the air, nothing under the earth, nothing in the waters. All will be exterminated.

We’re born alone and we die alone, I accept that. But why, God, do we have to be alone in the middle?

Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to.