“It's not what artists touch that counts most. It's what they don't touch.”

“Life is short. Short, and not about anything except what you can touch and what touches you.”

“What I have found to be unanimous about people is that they guard and act like they don’t want you to touch the places inside them that they are the most desperate for you to touch.”

“Don't touch me; I'll die if you touch me.”

“I don't want my life to be defined by what is etched on a tombstone. I want it to be defined in what is etched in the lives and hearts of those I've touched.”

“An artist’s touches are sometimes no more articulate than the barking of a dog who would call attention to something without exactly knowing what. This is as it should be, and he is a great artist who can be depended on not to bark at nothing.”

“The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.”

“Don't touch her.”

“What counts for most people in investing is not how much they know, but rather how realistically they define what they don't know.”

“When you read sutras don't seek to understand them. Stay in touch with precisely what they are eliciting in terms of experience in you.”