If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldn't have to paint at all.

In a democracy, citizens have to be self-disciplined, or the country goes down, defeated from within by moral rot.

When a plan or strategy fails, people are tempted to assume it was the wrong vision. Plans and strategies can always be changed and improved. But vision doesn't change. Visions are simply refined with time.

I have been blessed to see visions of eternity; and events in my future that have been important for me to foresee, have been revealed to me.

I am primarily a writer of books, and I enjoy that. But I come to realize that a lot of people prefer a visual medium.

The key thing if you're a writer is to visualize the scene and convey it to the penciller and turn the penciller loose.

We hear many persuasive voices demanding freedom from restrictions, particularly from moral restraints. However, we learn from the history of the earth that any successful society has had boundaries.

I think long-term, not short-term.

Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another. The function of the artist is the mythologization of the environment and the world.

Our own poor poets, I am afraid, have been so intimidated by our clinics and laboratories that they have abandoned the first principles of beginning, that of the festival; and the heart of the festival has always been the atmosphere of myth, of delight.

Democracy is not something you believe in or hang your hat on, but something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles and falls. If you participate, the future is yours.

The big thing is that you know what you want.