I'm not a lady, I'm a hellraiser.

We're endangered by our own success..

Never say, "I tried it once and it did not work.".

I think it is the weak and the young and the minorities that you need to look after to get a healthy creative environment - to get a lot of choices, ….

One of the most perfect and unfailing joys of life is planting. It is the creative joy felt by God..

Creative leadership impact increases in your 50's. When I turn 50 I want to say, "Nice start!".

Never Explain Anything.

There was a time when you were not. There never will be a time when you will not be..

It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist..

There will always be an underground..

I'm religiously celibate except in LA, NOLA, FLA, because there is certainly no God in any of those places. So unless you live in one of those places….

To me there is no such thing as creative writing. It's either good writing, whatever the subject, or it's not creative..

Apply yourself wholly to the text; apply the text wholly to yourself..

Things are not going to improve for you in life until YOU improve.

You can make anything out of anything..

There is no later. This is later..

With creative people, truly new horizons open up..

I think anybody who's working in a creative medium is working partially with their conscious mind, partially with their unconscious mind. So, my unco….

We believe that the elements in the chemical formula of our creative work, problem, invention, and art, correspond to the challenges of our age..

In all the creative work that I have done, what has come first is a problem, a puzzle involving discomfort..

I couldn't be happier..