Art is an attitude toward life. If you aim your work and your life high, keep your scene harmonious, then you're an artist and your life is art.

Beauty is that which excites the soul.

One goal of my art is to help people remember why they are here now.

This story is not about avoiding death, but living life.

If pizza brings you joy, then by all means, love that pizza like your life depends on it. Because it does.

A kindly tongue is the lodestone of the hearts of men. It is the bread of the spirit, it clotheth the words with meaning, it is the fountain of the light of wisdom and understanding...

My opinion changes rapidly - one minute I can think it is very good and the next time I look at it, I see all the flaws and weaknesses therein.

To truly know what works, you have to learn what doesn't work first.

If you find that a point cannot be made without narration, it is virtually certain that the point is unimportant to the story (which is to say, to the audience).

It's confidence; it has to be something good about getting old. One of the things is that you just don't stress about some stuff that made you so worried.

My book had a universal theme. It's not a "racial" novel. It portrays an aspect of civilization, not necessarily Southern civilization.

Manitoba... Not sure what to do about them. Restock the province with megafauna and encourage tourism, I think. How quickly can we breed back the saber-toothed cats?

I photograph different people all the time. I like to shoot all kinds of people.