It's awesome to realize that if your greatest potential talent is for riding a bicycle upside down on a high wire, you will somehow discover it.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.

They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.

Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is.

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.

The greatest choices are great love, great life and great deeds.

Only in a crowded, diverse place like New York, surrounded by strangeness, do I come home to myself.

There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.

My only worry is the painting I'm doing. Nothing else.

It stems from my Australianisms and belief that everyone is a fundamental cog in the wheel.

I see my work as visual meditations on the human experience and my attempts to capture the thin, otherwordly realm I believe exists between what we see and what we cannot.

Japanese chefs believe our soul goes into our knives once we start using them. You wouldn't put your soul in a dishwasher!

I really suggest listening to talk radio. I mean, if you just listen to what the talk hosts are saying, they sound like they are lunatics.

When you exercise your freedom to express yourself at the lowest level, you ultimately condemn yourself to live at that level.