I've always wondered, like, what is so masculine about abstraction? How did men get the ownership over this?

I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that illusion is constantly exciting.

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.

The greatest evil in our country today is...ignorance...We need to be taught to study rather than to believe.

I believe you are one of the people that can lift the corners of the universe.

As we have no immediate experience of what other men feel, we can form no idea of the manner in which they are affected, but by conceiving what we ourselves should feel in the like situation.

It is unbelievably sad and ironic that the first victims of global warming are almost all going to come from places that are producing virtually none of the problem.

I know that if we allow ourselves into the gridlock of tribalism, we're in trouble.

We will not win our rights by staying quietly in our closets.

You're never healing the level you're on. You're always healing the level you came from. For example, you know things today that you didn't know in your first marriage.

Guard your tongue from praise as you have guarded it from blame.

They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.