沙漠不仅仅是一个地方；它是人类孤独的广阔隐喻。

我画得越多，就越不在乎别人的想法。

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.

过去的33年里，我每天早晨都会看着镜子问自己：“如果今天是我生命中的最后一天，我会想做今天将要做的事吗？”每当答案连续很多天都是“否”时，我知道我需要改变一些事情。

No wise pilot, no matter how great his talent and experience, fails to use his checklist..