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.

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.

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.

As Martin Luther King said, "Passively to participate in an unjust system is to accept that system and to participate in its evil."

You have to know what you want to ever be able to have it.

It's important to tell your story. It's important to listen.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come.

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

There have been so many people that have come up and embraced me as an example of what it's like to face something tough and just get up the next day and keep pushing.

A light cotton cami is always great to stay cool.

As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

More people need to understand the games secular liberals play. Here's one rule-of-thumb: No matter how bad a story sounds - particularly if it sounds bad - recognize the pattern of defamation.

If God is male, then the male is God.

The land and everything on it can be taken away, but no one can take away your knowledge or the degrees you earn