Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.

Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.

Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.

There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.

To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!

There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.

If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.