Everybody who tells you how to act has whiskey on their breath.

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more.

The New England spirit does not seek solutions in a crowd; raw light and solitariness are less dreaded than welcomed as enhancers of our essential selves.

I'm somewhat shy about the brutal facts of being a carnivore. I don't like meat to look like animals. I prefer it in the form of sausages, hamburger and meat loaf, far removed from the living thing.

Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart.

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.