Eventually, if it's on your mind, you stumble on it. You need a certain amount of luck and persistence.

Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.

I told the doctor I was overtired, anxiety-ridden, compulsively active, constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia. Turns out I'm normal.

Design is important because chaos is so hard.

I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father.

We are all continually embarking on first drafts, in every aspect of our lives.

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

If you are not able to communicate successfully between yourself and yourself, how are you supposed to make it with the strangers outside?

Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?

Imagination continually frustrates tradition; that is its function.

Writing, I explained, was mainly an attempt to out-argue one's past; to present events in such a light that battles lost in life were either won on paper or held to a draw.

I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them.

Art is the lesser sister to medicine. It aims to heal.

A single mom tries when things are hard. She never gives up. She believes in her family, even when things are tough. She knows that above all things... a mother's love is more than enough.

La ve rite existe; on n'invente que le mensonge. Truth exists; only lies are invented.

It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.

Man is a thinking animal, a talking animal, a toolmaking animal, a building animal, a political animal, a fantasizing animal. But, in the twilight of a civilization he is chiefly a taxpaying animal.

I consider every step towards doing what you love an achievement.

He was the tallest, thinnest, weariest boy I had ever seen in my life. He was brilliant. He had gorgeous brown eyes, and he had only two suits. He was completely unhappy, and I didn't know why.

If the critics were always right we should be in deep trouble.

I think it [Brexit] is wonderful.We've got to decide in this country who we are.We made a momentous decision.It's a bit like a prison break.