If youve ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you. You can be happy or successful or whatever, but that thing still stays within you.

One person's craziness is another person's reality.

Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?

Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.

Don't worry about how you 'should' draw it. Just draw it the way you see it.

Live people ignore the strange and unusual. I myself, am strange and unusual.

Maybe it's just in America, but it seems that if you're passionate about something, it freaks people out. You're considered bizarre or eccentric. To me, it just means you know who you are.

If I had a choice about going to a meeting at a studio or changing a nappy, I'd choose the nappy.

Drawing is exercise for a restless imagination.

I am the shadow on the moon at night/Filling your dreams to the brim with fright.

It's good as an artist to always remember to see things in a new, weird way.

That explains a lot, ' he said. 'I suppose it's also why we've never glimpsed that giant compass in the corner of the Atlantic. I have to say, I'm a little disappointed.

Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put three man-years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product, and distributing it for free?

To define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity.

Nothing, absolutely nothing, was above corruption so long as human beings were involved.

Without science, there would be no such hope.

Innovation is applied creativity. By definition, innovation is always about introducing something new, or improved, or both and it is usually assumed to be a positive thing.

Sooner or later, jihadist-style terror and WMD are going to come together and the consequences could be horrendous.

But no, I've just been very lucky. But I've worked hard, and the harder you work, the luckier you seem to get.

The sun was like a word written between the sea and the sky, a word that was swallowed up by the sea before any man had time to read it.

As far as I'm concerned, there is only one study and that is the way in which things relate to one another.