I doubt that art needed Ruskin any more than a moving train needs one of its passengers to shove it.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Give us this day our daily mask.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Guerilla warfare? I was in way over my head. I told myself that I could do this. It was guerilla warfare every time I went to sleep.

Because I seeA rainstorm in JuneJust before the sunThe black of nightJust before the starsAnd, girl, I see your ghostJust before our dawn

Growing up, I used to climb out my window onto the roof and look up at the stars. There, in the quiet, I would write stories inside my head.

With Bitcoin hard-coded to be limited, it’s like a collectible.

Real motivation is that drive from within: You know where you are going because you have a compelling image inside, not a travel poster on the wall.

Busyness does not mean you are a faithful or fruitful Christian. It only means you are busy, just like everyone else.

Night is beautiful when you are happy--comforting when you are in grief--terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.

The cleverest amongst you is he who is the loyal apostle of life, the true disciple of existence, the devout follower of love.

I studied one term of law and then came to realize I had a little better fastball and curve than I did a vocabulary.