The hardest heart and the grossest ignorance must disappear before the rising sun of suffering without anger and without malice.
Say what you have to say, and then stop.
You can't build a vocabulary without reading. You can't meet friends if you. . . stay at home by yourself all the time. In the same way, you can't build up a vocabulary if you never meet any new words. And to meet them you must read. The more you read the better.
Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they have always been done.
A writer must know how people read, what are the main sources of reading errors, and what can be done to possibly forestall them.
I say, don't read the classics - try to discover your own classics; every life has its own.
Abstract ideas are the patterns two or more memories have in common.
What is kinder--to believe the best of people and burden them with a nobility beyond their endurance--or to see them as they are, and accept it because it makes them comfortable?
Jesus Christ was the original rock'n'roll star. He gave people reasons to live in the rut they were living in. He was the first man to say, "You don't have to have human sacrifices, 'cause human sacrifices hurt somebody, you know?" Just believe in the spirit that is within you.
I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, not in a chaos without norms, even though that is how it sometimes appears. My subjects are also often playful: I cannot refrain from demonstrating the nonsensicalness of some of what we take to be irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure to deliberately mix together objects of two and three dimensions, surface and spatial relationships, and to make fun of gravity.
We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.