I have a feeling that art is something you do for yourself, and that any time you turn your decisions over to someone else you're postponing at best, your own development. The atmosphere of the workshop should be that of trying out one's own work and accepting the signals from others but not accepting the dictation of others because that is a violation of the spirit of art. Art can't be done by somebody else, it has got to be done by the artist.

Once you decide to do right, life is easy, there are no distractions.

Anyone who breathes is in the rhythm business.

Some people are blinded by their experience. Soldiers know how important war is. Owners of slaves learn every day how inferior subject peoples are.

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

A writer is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things.

The greatest ownership of all is to glance around and understand.