Sometimes history knocks at the most ordinary door to see if anyone is home. Sometimes someone is.

The best feelings in your life come when you start feeling good after you've been feeling just awful

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

The examined life is no picnic.

All I really need to know... I learned in kindergarten.

Public lives are lived out on the job and in the marketplace, where certain rules, conventions, laws, and social customs keep most of us in line. Private lives are lived out in the presence of family, friends, and neighbors who must be considered and respected even though the rules and proscriptions are looser than what's allowed in public. But in our secret lives, inside our own heads, almost anything goes.

And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world it is best to hold hands and stick together.