Artists are messengers whose responsibility is to unite the world -- a faith that will lead not to destruction but to transformation.

You must run around like a crazy person or walk sedately honoring the dead.

The earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable.

That is scary, when you consider what we're doing to children all over the planet. They're the ones who are truly being terrorized by all the madness adults are perpetrating.

I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that's fine. But even if you don't quote-unquote make it, you're fine, if you've given it your whole heart and soul. You're totally in sync with your purpose and with the universe. And that's fine.

Freedom, after all, is like love: the more you give to others, the more you have.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.