When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.

When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas.

You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid.

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.

I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.

My job as an artist, as I see it, is to understand and in some cases to take on various ways of thinking about people and the world that are different from my own, sometimes radically different.

Always be happy, you never know how happy you can make another by just being happy.

Out of clutter, find simplicity.

We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here.

It does people good to have to do things they don't like in moderation.

For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.

I usually tame my off-kilter sense of humor for novels.

God gives each one of us sufficient grace ever to know His holy will, and to do it fully.

It's so much fun for me to sit next to you here.

No one thinks in your mind except you.

Be confident, cheerful and contented. The mind can produce any degree of contentment and peace. To generate these, no other agency or help is required.