Love is the spirit that motivates the artist's journey.

You can sweat by not practicing or you can pick up your clarinet. There's good sweat and there's bad sweat.

Life is too short not to create, not to love, and not to lend a helping hand to our brothers and sisters.

To create you must quiet your mind. You need a quiet mind so that ideas will have a chance of connecting.

The writer loves the fog as it pours in; he loves the sun when the fog pours out. The rest of California is Beach Boys country, but San Francisco has that moody thing going on, those blues notes wrapped in moisture, an atmosphere that tempers California dreaming and makes life more real. The fog brings reality, but it is still a California reality, one spent outdoors the whole year round.

When a thing is not done, continuing to work is the strength; but when it is done, the strength lies in stopping.

If we had the consciousness of a cat or a dog, we would have it in us to become perfect Zen masters. We could gnaw on a bone, take a nap, play with a spider until we killed it, get our litter just right, and be innocently and serenely present. Meaning would mean nothing to us, nor would we need it to mean anything. We would be free, and we would be spared. But, we are human beings, and we posses that odd duck – human consciousness.