Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.

One must picture everything in the world as an enigma, and live in the world as if in a vast museum of strangeness.

There is much more mystery in the shadow of a man walking on a sunny day, than in all religions of the world.

When I close my eyes my vision is even more powerful.

We must hold enormous faith in ourselves.

Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of life.

It used to be that painters were crazy and sculptors clever. Today it's the other way around.

You are putting on paper, in print, what you sense and feel in your mind.

In a perfect world, mothers would remind their daughters each morning of how beautiful their strong noses are, or how special their curly red hair is.

In a certain way, you get some new tools to work with, but I don't know if it ultimately makes the creative process any easier.

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.

I'm pretty much of the Shakespearean school. Dialogue is character. How we speak is who we are.

For victory in life, we've got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.

Furthermore, worrying about people and problems doesn't help. It doesn't solve problems, it doesn't help other people, and it doesn't help us. It is wasted energy.

Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.

There are no mundane things outside of Buddhism, and there is no Buddhism outside of mundane things.