I discovered that the most dangerous mask is the one worn by intelligent people because they are clever at their disguise.

Life is the journey between darkness of the womb and darkness of the grave.

I have to display what I have seen to people.

Drawing is like the first kiss. It carries within it the deepest emotion and the challenge of the first step. It is the first cry after birth

Darkness is where we begin and where we end. We don't usually see light traveling in darkness of space because we only can see its reflection on substance.

The truth is far beyond what we can see. Therefore my art is an invitation to comprehend this fact.

Everyday hundreds of people came to the hospital... dying, and I have to introduce life into them again... my duty was to compete with death.

I think we need a huge dose of love.

Art should stimulate.

Reading brings power to the mind and power brings freedom to the mind. Though you ought to read, read what is noble and worthy of not just your time, but your lifetime!

Insecurity is a waste of time.

There's certainly more new SF available than when I started writing. That means there's also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field.

While the faculty of sensation is dependent upon the body, mind is separable from it

A sportswriter once referred to him as our future president. With a name like Kevin, I don't know whether that's possible.

I used to think that prizes were damaging and divisive, until I got one, and now they seem sort of meaningful and important.

Everything was new, now I’m a junkie, I seem to need more severe doses of experience to feel anything.

The best rose-bush, after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest roses.

At eighteen you don't think about memories, you tell them.

I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing and writing and writing and quit.