Greatness breaks laws.

When you put things together, things that other people have thrown out, you’re really bringing them to life – a spiritual life that surpasses the life for which they were originally created.

I never for one minute questioned what I had to do. I did not think for one minute that I didn't have what I had. If just didn't dawn on me. And so if you know what you have, then you know that there's nobody on earth that can affect you.

I've been so lonely for long periods of my life that if a rat walked in I would have welcomed it.

I have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside.

Early in school, they called me 'the artist.' When teachers wanted things painted, they called upon me, they called upon 'the artist.' I am not saying that I learned my name, animals can learn their names, I am saying that they learned it.

No matter how individual we humans are, we are a composite of everything we are aware of. We are a mirror of our times.