Any design, any city, any kind of craziness or tragedy, it all comes from a long time of preparation.

Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.

A small act is worth a million thoughts.

Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.

The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.

The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.

Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.

Everything is art. Everything is politics.

I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.

I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.

The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.

I wish, when I was first born, the first thing I said was "Quote" so the last thing I said before I died would be "Unquote.

Creative people are like a wet towel You wring them out and pick up another one.

The one thing that does happen, every time, though, is that I never get to write a book until I've already been thinking about it for a period of months to years.

It was a lone voice in the middle of the ocean, but it was heard at great depth and great distance.

If I've done anything, I've brought passion to television.

It was a palace, made entirely of gold, sitting on an island of silver snow at the very top of the world. East of the sun, and west of the moon.

I have read where Abraham Lincoln said he wasn't interested in freeing the slaves.

Forgiveness is as wide as repentance.

A lot of women don't know how to vent and deal with emotions.

I was interested in cross-pollinating the two. I thought there was something lovely in the little vignette forms. I wanted to explore that.