I notice inspiration when it comes by. I don't sit down at my desk and try to write.

If you have one person you’re influenced by, everyone will say you’re the next whoever. But if you rip off a hundred people, everyone will say you’re so original!

Don’t worry about a style. It will creep up on you and eventually you will have to undo it in order to go further.

I don't like religion very much. I think it's all about people trying to be very certain about things that are very uncertain.

Making art, I try to just gently persist, instead of having freak-outs where I'm like, Oh, my god, I'll never draw again. You are going to draw again, so you might as well relax.

People like being alike, joining up, and being part of something.

If you keep pushing paint when you're tired of it, you lose sensitivity. I can only focus on painting for a few hours, so I'll stop and work on something quite different.

I pray, but who I pray to I'm not exactly sure, especially when I'm praying for more money.

The snag about marriage is, it isn´t worth the divorce.

One of the greatest things parents can do for their children is to believe in them(their uniqueness) and help them realize their own God-given dreams

Am I tough? Am I strong? Am I hard-core? Absolutely. Did I whimper with pathetic delight when I sank my teeth into my hot fried-chicken sandwich? You betcha.

Be happy for what you have.

when the press and problems of humanity become too much, I love to escape into books, where people are served up in digestible portions and can be pushed to one side when one is satiated.

[S]exual intercourse remains a means or the means of psychologically making a woman inferior.

Because of old sports injuries, yoga has become a physical lifesaver.

Human creativity is unlimited. It is the capacity of humans to make things happen which didn't happen before. Creativity provides the key to solving our social and economic problems.

The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worst part of oneself.

Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore, in addition to causing horrendous damage, they prove ultimately futile.