By acquiescing in an act that causes such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not diminished?

Once, I ordered two thousand lady bugs from the local garden center and set them loose in the atrium. I sprinkled marigold seeds in the ficus planters and put gold fish in the lobby fountain....

My kids are starting to notice I’m a little different from the other dads. “Why don’t you have a straight job like everyone else?” they asked me the other day. I told them this story:...

to be nobody-but-yourself in a world which is doing its’ best, night and day, to make you just like everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight; and never...

I am neither for conformity nor non-conformity. I am for individuality. If one’s individuality is in effect non-conformity, then so be it. But basically, one’s individuality consists of conformity–to one’s self.

I can’t change the world, I can only change how I choose to live in it.

If what you create seems to turn out much stranger than who you are as a person, it’s probably because your heart is talking.

No one knows, at sight a masterpiece.And give up verse, my boy,There’s nothing in it.Likewise a friend of Bloughram’s once advised me:Don’t kick against the pricks,Accept opinion. The Nineties tried your gameAnd died, there’s nothing...

She was an extraordinary person too! Would you believe it, she cut her hair short, and used to go about in men’s boots in bad weather

Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.

If, living in the world, you refuse to be a part of it, you will help other out of this chaos – not in the future, not tomorrow, but now.

But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see as injustice that they dare to declare their independence. In that historical possibility...

To creative people, the compendium of the white man’s dialect are unfashionable, because their creations are more than what the tongue could say.