Fine artists deal with finery, but I deal with painful material.

If I wait for someone else to validate my existence, it will mean that I’m shortchanging myself.

I myself am an absolute abyss.

I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as to believe that a book will make it merely because it's good.

Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?

America is being absolutely devastated with bad trade deals.

I think that always makes it fun, trying to create a heroic character and putting your own twist on it and injecting your own personality into it.

We're not questioning the legitimacy of the outcome of the election. You didn't have Republicans questioning whether or not [Barack] Obama legitimately beat John McCain in 2008.

Nina knew the power of black and white images. Sometimes a thing was its truest self when the colors were stripped away.

My family was so poor the lady next door gave birth to me.

Love does not go away, it changes.

My interest in biology was pretty much always on the philosophical side.