“Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It’s a piece of neural audio technology for rewiring other people’s minds. I’m talking about your language.”

Adoration isn't love.

We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope.

What is most personal is most general.

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

If you look over your left shoulder and it is saying to go this and your other shoulder is telling you to go the other way. Then just follow your heart and you will be OK.