If you don't find some way to discuss what's going on inside you, it can come out in other ways that are self-destructive.

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.

When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas.

You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid.

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.

I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.

My job as an artist, as I see it, is to understand and in some cases to take on various ways of thinking about people and the world that are different from my own, sometimes radically different.

We must believe in free will, we have no choice.

Sacrifice of live, sacrifice for love. Fate is gentle and harsh; she gives and she takes.

The letter I received said you had need of my particular talents, but I must confess that I have so many talents that I am not sure which one you require.

The greatest voice of all time.

You never have to know all the answers because you won't be asked all the questions.

Fall the deep curtains, delicate the weave, fair the thread.

Indifferentism about doctrine makes no heroes of the faith.

If you have high IQ, you're really good at finding post-hoc arguments to support your feelings of truthiness.

As artists, we must learn to be self-nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them.

I believe it is a spirit of hope that gathers us here together today.