You can't change the world, you can only change yourself.

I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.

My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.

I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love

Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That's just hot air.

Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.

And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.

The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn't mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him.

I happen to believe that there is an afterlife

Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up.

A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.

His smile was bright and sweet and hot enough to melt solid steel. "Is this the part where I kiss you?""If you like.""Oh, " he said, "I like.

A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Those North Korean hackers are at it again. Earlier today they leaked Santa's naughty list.

I think if we ever encountered aliens, even communicating with them would be really, really difficult.

You can't throw your ego away, but you can use its innate desire to experience that which is beyond itself to give you the impetus to meditate.

As you've noticed people don't want to be sold. What people do want is news and information about the things they care about.

Uncertainty is intrinsic to the process of finding out what you don't know, not a weakness to avoid.

In acrylic, happiness comes a bit faster.

I learned a long time ago that I can't control the challenges the creator sends my way, but I can control the way I think about them and deal with them