Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.

Death is contagious; it is contracted the moment we are conceived.

Like and equal are not the same thing at all. -- Meg Murray

I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.

Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it's dead. But we're allowed to learn from our mistakes and from our failures. And that's how I learn, by falling flat on my face and picking myself up and starting all over again.

Creative scientists and saints expect revelation and do not fear it. Neither do children. But as we grow up and we are hurt, we learned not to trust.

It is the ability to choose which makes us human.