Out of routine comes inspiration. That's the idea, anyway. To grasp what's exceptional, you first have to know what's routine.

Drawing used to be a civilized thing to do, like reading and writing. It was taught in elementary schools. It was democratic. It was a boon to happiness.

Art, not unlike raising children... may entail much sacrifice and periods of despair, but, with luck, the effort will produce something that outlives you.

The consolation of art comes in many forms... For some it is making, for others it is having.

Everything, even the most ordinary daily affair, is enriched by the lessons that can be gleaned from art.

Under ordinary circumstances, bad art naturally gets sorted out and disappears. That is how history works when it is left alone to do its job.

Art provides us with clues about how to live our own lives more fully... art becomes our entree to the sublime.

All writers, all storytellers, are imposing their own narrative on something.

Our goals are not achieved if all our energy given to us to achieve the goal and self-actualization is directed towards being accepted by our surroundings and to meet their requirements

The past ruins the present to destroy the future. Take charge of the NOW.

...too often it's only children and old people who speak the truth. You just have to slow down and listen.

Sometimes you can do Shakespeare and you're still not an actor.

The script and the performances and the style all clicked.

We are all incarnate Buddhas. We just have not realized it deeply. We have not moved the mind - what our friend Don Juan calls the assemblage point.

You must learn to translate wisdom and strong feelings into labor.

Richard got married to a figure skater, and he bought her a dishwasher and a coffee percolator.

Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with itself without spoken sound.

I understand how hard it is to talk to people about MS. You don't want pity or random advice.