"Let us not forget that group of self-taught, outsider artists who never stepped foot in any classroom and cared less about even exhibiting, and yet ended up with an audience of avid admirers."

“Whenever you're aggressive, you're at the edge of mistakes.”

“I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.”

Source : "I don't have a modem". Interview with Dan Josefsson, www.josefsson.net. November 23, 1994.

“The Negro loves America enough to criticize her fundamentally. Most white Americans simply can't be bothered.”

“Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty”

“Within the miraculous brew of universal creativity , all you desire already exists. Spend five minutes each morning with your eyes closed, living in that dimension. Allow images to unfold without censor. Feel yourself living the most magnificent life -- a life of joy, creativity and love -- as you grow inwardly into the person you need to be in order to manifest it effortlessly.”

“My natural mother died one month after I was born, apparently due to giving birth at an advanced age.”

“It took me awhile to not be ashamed to be a poet in the business environment, and to be a business person in the poet environment.”

“Joy is a subtle elf; I think one's happiest when he forgets himself.”