Writing is done alone. People do not talk about the things they do alone.

The loner who looks fabulous is one of the most vulnerable loners of all.

We do not require company. In varying degrees, it bores us, drains us, makes our eyes glaze over. Overcomes us like a steamroller. Of course, the rest of the world doesn't understand.

Equanimity means that one does not do abhorrence at the time of abhorrence (generating incidents) and one does not do attachment at the time of attachment (generating incidents).

Negative feelings weigh you down and can keep you from experiencing healing, as surely as stones might weigh you down if you were trying to swim.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman.

But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age.

I paint the way some people write their autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages of my journal, and as such they are valid.

The only city people are those born so.

It's all about makeup.

I have two answers to everything and one answer to nothing.

I've been calling plays in the huddle since I was seven.

The work of art itself is . . . a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in some way more open and enriched.