The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.

Everybody thinks their opinion is the right one. If they didn't, they would get a new one.

Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.

Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.

Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.

I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work.

This is what separates artists from ordinary people: the belief, deep in our hearts, that if we build our castles well enough, somehow the ocean won't wash them away. I think this is a wonderful kind of person to be.