I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

The sunflower is mine, in a way.

Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation.

Very good cooks who are employed as 'chefs' rarely refer to themselves as 'chefs.' They refer to themselves as 'cooks.'

So it's 1976 and we're still riding on our past success. I mean I've gone on like that for I don't know how long.

Everyone in the life before was cranky, I think, because they just wanted to know. --After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned

As for how I feel about any success I've had, I just feel extremely lucky. Writing is a tough racket, and there are a lot of writers out there better than me who can't seem to catch a break.

No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.

Caution is the path to mediocrity.

One dupe is as impossible as one twin.

In whatever form it takes, life sings because it has a song. The meaning is in the lyrics.

Except for the usual house chores, doing income tax, etc., I am free to write whenever I want.