The uncut sheets of colored glass are really seductive, awesome, and unarguably lovely things. Naturally, the temptation to cut and damage all that pristine beauty is too much for me to resist.

Original artistic invention demands that even the inventor be surprised.

Preconceptions and knowledge really only get you to the edge of where creativity begins. Then intuition and faith take over, hopefully.

It's important to discuss ideas but it's more important to surrender control and preconceptions.

Cynicism - the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.

I've learnt something from every failure. The products I helped design at the first two companies I worked for were utter failures. But now I know why.

Learn from the experts; you will not live long enough to figure it all out by yourself.

The Ed Hardy man is confident with a strong sense of personal style. He is not afraid to be seen and take risks. He enjoys comfort and flexible style, yet he wants to stand apart from the crowd.

Yes, I did support the Soviet Union, and I think the disappearance of the Soviet Union is the biggest catastrophe of my life.

People who can't be alone have a problem. Loneliness is a luxury for people like me.

I'm not senile," I snapped. "If I burn the house down it will be on purpose.

And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.

Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.

For love is heaven and heaven is love.