It's good to be employable, but I hope to show the truth. The paintings seem true because nobody wants me to do them.

At times inactivity is preferable to mindless functioning.

You are a victim of the rules you live by.

My arrogance knows no bounds and I will make no peace today, and you should be so lucky to find a woman like me.

TRYING TO BE POPULAR IN HIGH SCHOOL IS LIKE TRYING TO BE MAYOR OF A CITY THAT WON'T EXIST IN FOUR YEARS.

If you have many desires your life will be interesting.

Protect me from what I want.

All things are delicately interconnected.

I used language because I wanted to offer content that people - not necessarily art people - could understand.

THERE IS A PERIOD WHEN IT IS CLEAR THAT YOU HAVE GONE WRONG BUT YOU CONTINUE. SOMETIMES THERE IS A LUXURIOUS AMOUNT OF TIME BEFORE ANYTHING BAD HAPPENS.

Slipping into madness is good for the sake of comparison

Why do you still feel the need to punish yourself for something that was out of your control?

Music always hits me when I'm driving so I keep a recorder in my bag.

If you're not accurate, you'll cause untold trouble.

It's always a challenge to top what I have done in the past.

Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.

Hittin' hard don't mean nothing if you don't find nothin' to hit.

Be someone who listens, and you will be heard. Be someone who cares, and you will be loved. Be someone who gives, and you will be blessed. Be someone who comforts, and you will know peace.

It seems to me that before a man tries to express anything to the world he must recognize in himself an individual, a new one, very distinct from others.

Each book gets harder, each book gets harder and harder. I always feel like crying when I have to write.

Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything - God alone suffices.