The full moon - the mandala of the sky.

what bothers me today is the lack of, well, i guess you'd call it authentic experience. so much is a sham. so much is artificial, synthetic, watered-down, and standardized...we're standardizing people, their goals, their ideas. the sham is everywhere.

I journey to the east, where I have been told, there are men who have taught death some manners.

So you think that you're a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if you've any sense at all you must have learned by now that we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.

Logic only gives man what he needs... Magic gives him what he wants.

We're making it up. The world, the universe, life, reality. Especially reality.

My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy.