“In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen.”

Life is a vacation from two eternities.

The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time, and you can’t see it if you refuse to face the possibility.

Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing.

Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.

By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.

We must all face the fact that our leaders are certifiably insane or worse.

Open your mind and let the pictures out

Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.

In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.

How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.

Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.

When you stop growing you start dying.

Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, “I am not paid to listen to this drivel – you are a terminal fool!” Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.

Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.

If you weren’t surprised by your life you wouldn’t be alive. Life is surprise.

If we open our eyes, if we open our minds, if we open our hearts, we will find that this world is a magical place. It is magical not because it tricks us or changes unexpectedly into something else, but because it can be so vividly and brilliantly.

The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …

If we could magically transport ourselves back to the young Earth, when it was only a billion years old or two billion years old or three billion years old or four billion years old.

Don’t you feel something magical when you’re in love?… I do, I certainly do … but I think that feeling of magic is a hardwired psychological response. It’s a chemical thing in the brain.

This is one of the magical things about drawing – it gives us almost visionary moments of connectedness.

The power of both myth and art is this magical ability to open doors, to make connections – not only between us and the natural world, but between us and the rest of humanity.

Baseball, more than any other sport, has a magical way of connecting fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, grandparents and grandchildren and ancestors back down the line. – From The Brooklyn Nine

If your persona has goals and the product has magical powers to meet them, how simple could the interaction be? This kind of thinking is useful to help designers look outside the box.