I didn't want to be pigeonholed as an artist. I wanted to be able to have other stories to tell.
When will we make the same breakthroughs in the way we treat each other as we have made in technology?
The brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as interesting. The lazy brain just files them away in old pigeonholes, like a bureaucrat who wants an easy life. The lively brain picks and chooses and creates new works of art out of ideas.
Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don't just exchange facts: they transform them, reshape them, draw different implications from them, engage in new trains of thought. Conversation doesn't just reshuffle the cards: it creates new cards.
Art is, nowadays, our new religion and museums are our cathedrals.
The kind of conversation I like is one in which you are prepared to emerge a slightly different person.
Each person is an enigma. You're a puzzle not only to yourself but also to everyone else, and the great mystery of our time is how we penetrate this puzzle.
Satyagraha is search for Truth, and God is Truth.
Creativity is born of chaos, even if it is somewhat difficult to glimpse the possibilities in the midst of the confusion.
I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy.
We born dyin'. . . But you ask a man an' he talk like he gonna live forevah.