When the artist observes nature... it is as if nature communicated, through the sensitivity of the artist at that moment, one of its secrets.

To complicate is simple, to simplify is complicated. ... Everybody is able to complicate. Only a few can simplify.

Progress means simplifying, not complicating

The designer of today re-establishes the long-lost contact between art and the public, between living people and art as a living thing.

Creativity: that which wasn't there before, but which can be made simply and completely.

To complicate is easy. To simplify is difficult

When someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them.

The person who can not bear with a sick man or a baby is not fit to be a woman.

An old codger rampant and still learning.

I will not be able to rule without you. You and I have the same responsibility. I do, as Bolivia's number one servant. Servant - one who serves the nation, not one whom the nation serves.

Everyday should be a good day to die

The art of life, of a poet's life, is, not having anything to do, to do something.

As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it.

My favorite charity is the Womens Refugee Commission and the Nomi network.

I think writers have to be able to enjoy solitude rather than just endure it. I've always enjoyed being left alone with my imagination, ever since I was a kid.

LSD is a catalyst or amplifier of mental processes. If properly used it could become something like the microscope or telescope of psychiatry.