To fly we have to have resistance.

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time.

I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that.

An artist fights to retain the integrity of a work so that it remains a strong, clear vision. Art is and should be the act of an individual willing to say something new, something not quite familiar.

Our lives are given meaning by our actions-accomplishments made while we are "here" that extend beyond our own time.

If we forget what used to be, then we’ve lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings.

You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.

I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world.

OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me.

To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

Our country ... when right, to be kept right. When wrong, to be put right.

In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding.

If you record things, you're going to find, patterns of things, and patterns are important, because you can then see the patterns form before it happens.

Don't wait for anyone to deputize you or authorize you or empower you. You have to just start out with yourself...and put one foot in front of the other.

I feel the one sensible thing you can do is try to live in a way that pleases you. If you don't hurt anybody else, what you do is your own business.

Anyone can sell product by dropping their prices, but it does not breed loyalty.

In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face.

Mort was hurt by this. It was one thing not to want to marry someone, but quite another to be told they didn't want to marry you.

Many people think that depression is something you just have to live with when you get older, but it's not.