We must be free, but to have real freedom, you must be wild and free yourself..

I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could..

The real question is who will innovate..

Beauty makes us more like ourselves and more like each other..

Eee-nee-mee-nee-my-nee-moe.

Books are for the most part willfully and hastily written, as parts of a system to supply a want real or imagined..

We see nothing till we truly understand it..

A lot of things are going right. More is going right than wrong, for sure..

Music has always gotten me through life, particularly honest, real music..

Will I ever get control of my life? Will I always be shoved back and pushed around by those I trust?.

You have to live a life to become a writer..

To me, NOTHING is 'new'..

You can't understand where someone's going unless you understand where they've been..

I am a romantic, I admit it..

Those who love to be feared, fear to be loved. Some fear them, but they fear everyone..

The strength you've insisted on assigning to others is actually within yourself..

I've seen things, and that's almost the same as doing them..

In the bedroom darkness I may visualise a way of making a painting. I can see it - if I do this and this and that and this, my God! Why haven't I see….

I'm not quite as anonymous as I was..

Which of my feelings are real? Which of the me's is me? The wild, impulsive, chaotic, energetic, and crazy one? Or the shy, withdrawn, desperate, sui….

The more you read the Bible; and the more you meditate on it, the more you will be astonished with it..