You must create your own world. I am responsible for my world.

True strength is delicate.

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.

When you put things together, things that other people have thrown out, you’re really bringing them to life – a spiritual life that surpasses the life for which they were originally created.

No matter how individual we humans are, we are a composite of everything we are aware of. We are a mirror of our times.

I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.

Most of us have to be transplanted before we blossom.

You take a painting, you have a white, virginal piece of canvas that is the world of purity, and then you put your imagery on it, and you try to bring it back to the original purity.

It gave me great pleasure to think that I could take wood, make it good, and make people like Rockefeller buy it with paper money.

I make collages. I join the shattered world creating a new harmony.

I think all great innovations are built on rejections.

Nothing makes me happy quite like a boatload of freshly fried fast food, smothered in good old MSG.

Before she could ponder what on earth he meant or come up with a proper response, he took their charade a step further.He kissed her.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard.

I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house.

Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

Cut the "im" out of impossible, leading that dynamic word standing out free and clear-possible.

I'm pretty much a straight guy on 'The Office.' We can't all be crazies. You need some balance.