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Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts.

— Robert Fulghum All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1986)

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I make art in and for the experience itself — to satisfy a need to express myself in a creative, colorful, non-verbal way.

Introduction to the Art gallery at his website (2006)

My convictions have validity for me because I have experimented with the compounds of ideas of others in the laboratory of my mind. And I've tested the results in the living out of my life.

Words I Wish I Wrote (1997)

They've added an important dimension to the lives of the young people of their town — that lightness of being that belongs to dancers.

Love the battle between chaos and imagination.

One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem.

Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door (2001)

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