We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies.

Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.

Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.

As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow straight and open fully on their stems, so did I, too, with my exhausted force.

What I like best about teaching is that it allows me to explore my own interest with a group.

cross that person off your invitation list.

I think that everything happens for a reason, everything happens when it's going to happen.

We are under [government's] control, and if people don't realize that, they haven't looked around. And if they're not paranoid, they haven't thought about it.

Some critics claim to know what art has to be and do, and consider it their task to steer art along the path they have chosen. Others receive art gladly, and try to distinguish degrees of excellence.

Don't surround yourself with people who just affirm you. Surround yourself with people who challenge you.

We are mere journeymen, planting seeds for someone else to harvest.