"The greatest journey starts when the journey is far more important than the destination."

"It is a humble truth that a quiet mind perceives the subtle truths that noisy ambitions constantly drown out."

"Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books."

"After its hothouse incubation in the seventies, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades - even if it's now close to aesthetic kudzu."

"It is a radiant truth that wisdom is the quiet art of recognizing what can be changed and releasing what cannot — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry."

"I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction."

"The art of living is discovering that every failure is just a stepping stone to greatness."