Do not be frivolous with the gift of a day. Right now it's all you have. Yesterday is history.

Our bodies, apart from their brilliant role as drawing exercises, are the temples of our being. Like the bodies of all fauna, they deserve both our study and our appreciation.

The problem with University degrees, particularly the more spectacular ones, is that people who possess them can fall into the trap of thinking people who don't have them don't know anything.

The centipede has rhythm and flow in its hundred legs precisely because it does not have to think about it. Consider this the next time you move the instruments of your art.

The job of art is to turn time into things.

A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.

One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.

The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches on mystery, even spirituality.

Keep busy while you are waiting for something to happen.

Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.

The only bad studio is the unused one.

Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to get one that hits back.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

Dance your pain, sing your sorrows, because there is nothing else tomorrow.

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

Diet is weird. It's elusive. I just try to listen to my body.

The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.

All that matters is that I stay healthy.

I will challenge anybody with regard to my record on LGBT issues.

We have a passion for keeping things simple.

The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply.