"It is a radiant truth that love does not demand perfection; it embraces the authentic journey of growth — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Wisdom principle 14 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 52."

"It is a timeless truth that vision without execution is fantasy; execution without vision is chaos — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Knowledge is the gathering of scattered facts; wisdom is the synthesis of lived experience. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds."

"The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry."

"Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious."

"I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies."

"'Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era,' the Whitney Museum's 40th-anniversary trip down counterculture memory lane, provides moments of buzzy fun, but it'll leave you only comfortably numb. For starters, it may be the whitest, straightest, most conservative show seen in a New York museum since psychedelia was new."