You can't really divorce yourself and your life from the world you live in.

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.

By studying, understanding and do the wills of the book, you renounce your mortal life.

I mean by this Sacrament an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace.

I do love email. Wherever possible I try to communicate asynchronously. I'm really good at email.

The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity.

Endure and persist this pain will turn to good by and by.

It's hard not to be excited when you're going to find a way to land on the moon.

I think you should be into whatever your kids care about, and fuel that desire. That's good parenting.

What are you doing at the moment? How does that compare to your competitors? What do you want to achieve? How can you create something people want?

I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me.

When you delight the weird, the overlooked and the outliers, they are significantly more likely to talk about you and recommend you.