And the heart sounds like a sour conch, calls, oh sea, oh lament, oh molten panic, scattered in the unlucky and disheveled waves:the sea reports sonorouslyon its languid shadows, its green poppies.

The willingness to burn your ships, cut off all sources of retreat, and take decisive action is often the only assured path to success.

There is hope in any circumstance. Be strong!

I’ve never known a tranquil atheist. Don’t they always look like they just sat on a tack?

Keep food in the fridge, so it don't go stale. When there is nothing left to eat, I bite my nails.

Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself.

I could not paint at all if I had to paint slowly. Every effect is so transient, it must be rapidly painted.

When people have passion there's nothing they can't do.

I did take one drawing class in school, but for this book I spent a lot of time talking to painters and asking them silly questions.

When a sense of dissatisfaction persists, that means it was placed there by God for one reason only: you need to change everything and move forward.