I try to live what I consider a "poetic existence." That means I take responsibility for the air I breathe and the space I take up. I try to be immediate, to be totally present for all my work.

Living a life is like constructing a building: if you start wrong, you'll end wrong.

I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility

Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone

Never whine. Whining lets a brute know that a victim is in the neighborhood.

When it looked like the sun wasn't going to shine any more, there's a rainbow in the clouds,