Creativity is a celebration of life... I am here! I love life! I love me! I can be anything! I can do anything!

During those rare moments of creativeness, when a person has something in common with the making of the universe, he feels a sense of transcendence. What could be a greater reward?

All creative activity begins with movement.

It is in [the] process of making something... that the creator contacts a concrete reality outside his subjective life and moves into the realm of the transcendent.

Creativity is a celebration of one's grandeur, one's sense of making anything possible.

In the process of making anything, a person moves beyond personal expression to make something that stands by itself. The work acquires its own internal validity, its own integrity.

The fact is that the creative person is a disciplined craftsman whose 'gift' is a reaching out toward his most profound personal potential.

Art is prayer - not the vulgarized notations handed down to us in the scriptures, but a fresh vital discovery of one's own special presence in the world.

Excellent anthology... a celebration of our goodness and our potential for growth. The sense of celebration is stretched by the beautiful photographs.

Drawing or painting allows the artist to know himself as a whole person.

The air is cold and dusk has descended. In the distance lightning flickers and a far away rumble of thunder awakens my thoughts and makes me remember.

When someone points out your past mistakes, look at them dead in the eyes and follow with, 'and I’d do it all again to have the life I have now.

The right to choose to live or to die is the most fundamental right there is; conversely, the duty to give others that opportunity to the best of our ability is the most fundamental duty there is.

No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.

Financial hydrogen bombs built on personal computers by 26-year-olds with MBAs.

If you haven't made a mistake I cast a jaundiced eye, because you're probably not doing anything.

How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I'll say that. Wonder and terror.

Initiative is to success what a lighted match is to a candle.

We're all vulnerable, and it's all hackable. If someone wants you and has targeted you, you can be taken down, and that fact is really scary.

To be perfectly honest, it isn't fair that people have used my personality, and the sacrifices I make because I want to, as an indication that I want to be in a political office.