Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple: love, sex, and food!

You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, but it empties it of its strength.

The quality of your life depends quite a bit on the quality of attention you project out onto the world.

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

Art is about finding creativity in the gutter next to you.

It isn't just talent. You have to have something else. You have to have a kind of nerve.