I believe neither in what I touch nor what I see. I only believe in what I do not see, and solely in what I feel.

I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract.

I have never looked for dream in reality or reality in dream. I have allowed my imagination free play, and I have not been led astray by it.

Nature is simply the opportunity for the artist to express himself.

Color must be thought, imagined, dreamed.

I believe only in what I do not see.

No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, because I believe that this world is nothing but a dream.

Think colour! Know how to imagine it!

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

Young girls and mass murders are tender hearted creatures

I sold my first short story to Pyramid Press, where it was chiseled onto fifteen slabs of granite, and for which I was paid nine goats.

When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.

Your unhappiness ultimately arises not from the circumstances of your life but from the conditioning of your mind.

All 50 states had the same national economy. And on virtually any measurement you wish to look at, Michigan has moved up and improved against the others.

With effort, reach to effortlessness. With seeking, reach to a state of no-seeking. With mind, arrive at no-mind.

Wasting a fortune is evaporation by a thousand imperceptible means.

How I regret now that my perpetual emotional dependence on the man I love has killed all my other talents - my energy too: and I had such a lot of that once.

I watched tons of archive footage of princess Margaret and listened to the music she loved; that was really immersive and brilliant.