Once I got started, I wanted the life of a writer so fiercely that nothing could stop me. I wanted the intensity, the sense of aliveness that came fr….

Many people say, "Oh, we have nothing against Puerto Ricans," and I wanted a way to unmask the people that say that they have nothing against gay peo….

There's no way that you can stop nature..

When a man wants to have an alehouse meltdown, the worst thing you can do is stand in his way.

Everything comes to nothing in the end, I suppose. Or at least, nothing happens exactly the way we imagine it..

We're all just kids who grew up way too fast..

You see something for the first time, you experience something for the first time, you feel something for the first time, it's much harder. I think t….

I'm just me - the way I am..

There are as many ways to live as there are people..

Look at it this way - a totem pole is just a decorated tree. My work is a confessional..

There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’….

I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way..

The only thing I can hope the viewer will get from the work is something about the structure of the work. It would be asking too much, I think, for t….

Everybody has a background. Everybody has a past. Not everybody's the same person all the way through..

The best way to help the poor is the provide them property rights..

What interests me is the way people regard themselves. When we are 15, we all feel as if we are beginning to become somebody else..

All the normal matter in the Milky Way disc is denser than the dark matter that surrounds it..

Love opens your heart, trumps fear, and paves the way for healing in all aspects of your life..

Me and my harp was a love affair from way back..

I think great art goes beyond the control of the artist. In some ways, art often makes itself and reveals things about that artist that maybe the art….

You always feel very vulnerable when you put your work out there. You feel a kind of nakedness. And you expose something of the inner workings of the….