I'm like Demerol. . . No disrespect to the Jacksons, but I kill mics.
If you think success will make you happy, you have it backwards.
If you’re not pissing someone off, you probably aren’t doing anything important.
Over the last few days, I have been able to see my life as from a great altitude, as a sort of landscape, and with a deepening sense of the connection of all its parts. This does not mean I am finished with life. On the contrary, I feel intensely alive, and I want and hope in the time that remains to deepen my friendships, to say farewell to those I love, to write more, to travel if I have the strength, to achieve new levels of understanding and insight.
A copying artist should get permission or pay the original artist a fee.
The Impressionists had to fight the gallery system for many years before becoming accepted. One of their methods of fighting was to band together and hold their own shows.
How and when to try new things and to what degree are critical. . . Too soon and too radical a change and you may not master anything or develop a style.
Waves are fascinating, the way they are created by wind far out at sea and groomed by different winds as they come closer to shore. We surfers ride the very last part of the wave's life before it crashes and disappears, never to be seen again.
I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.
Choice by choice, moment by moment, I build the necklace of my day, stringing together the choices that form artful living.
There have been concerns about the long-term prospect that we lose control of certain kinds of intelligences. I fundamentally don’t think that’s going to happen.