Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there at the sandpile at Sunday School.

An artists job is to see. And to go out in the world and see it firsthand, just as it is; to report with line and words what is seen. To be in the world, not just study about the world, that is the artists task

All of these are names given me by other people, but not names I would have given myself. My name is not mine, it's theirs. It's a series of costumes put on my life by other people.

And good neighbors make a huge difference in the quality of life. I agree.

Almost anything can be dealt with if people are of good will and light hearts and strong values.

I'd like to speak a foreign language well enough to get the jokes. I'd like to talk with Socrates, and watch Michelangelo sculpt David. I'd like to see the world as it was a million years ago and a million years hence.

Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts.