I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.
Captive people have a need for song.
Who can say how many lives have been saved by books?
Our lives are written in disappearing ink.
To garden is a solitary act.
If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture, we must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples.
It's easy to sit on a mountaintop and tell people what to do and how to be happy. I have chosen to do that. Not because it's easy, but for a different reason, which I would reveal, if your mind was ready to handle it, which it isn't, which is also very convenient for me.
I always get into arguments with people who want to retain the old values in painting - the humanistic values that they. . . find on the canvas. If you pin them down, they always end up asserting that there is something there besides the paint on the canvas. My painting is based on the fact that only what can be seen there is there. . . What you see is what you get.
I think life has a way of kicking you in the pants too, but you have to pick up and move ahead, and it certainly helps if you have a good partner in life