Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself.

Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you'll discover will be wonderful: yourself.

Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone - they just don't do it.

artists try to say things that can't be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture a feeling; a taste; a painful longing. but the net is always too porous, and we are left with the sweet frustration of almost knowing, which is teasingly pleasurable.

Be brave enough to live creatively.

I've sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I've helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes; I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.

Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.