You can never do too much drawing.

Beautiful colours can be bought in the shops on the Riatlo, but good drawing can only be bought from the casket of the artist's talent with patient study and nights with out sleep.

Grant me paradise in this world; I'm not so sure I'll reach it in the next.

When one flower blooms spring awakens everywhere

forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.and perhaps it will be pleasing to have remembered these things one day

Children observe everything with caution.

You cannot fake effort; talent is great, but perseverance is necessary.

Twitter is a kind of verbalization of people yelling at their television sets or gnashing their teeth at the newspaper.

Frederick liked to say that three men behind the enemy were worth fifty in front of him.

This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.

Really, people are not a school of fish. Finding the leaders of the future is a question of recognizing those people who give leadership in a crisis.

I have always had an interest in how cultural rituals play into something as unpredictable as romance.

We are, quite literally, gambling with the future of our planet- for the sake of hamburgers