Is your work an interpretation of your understanding of reality, or is it simply a picture of your feelings?

Design may be the logical solution to a problem, but it's never a formula. Design grows out of clarity of purpose.

Drawing at its best is not what your eyes see but what our mind understands.

Art is many things but, directly or indirectly, it always describes the human condition.

Your painting is a measure of your mind.

I would argue that the issue of God and the issue of science have the same roots.

Saying you love someone is a good thing.

As you grow in spirituality, your whole life must improve.

Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.

I remain a fan of my friend Bret Easton Ellis's 'American Psycho.' I think as a book about New York in the '80s it was pretty excellent.

All my friends got dogs and cats for Christmas, and I got a starfish called Roy. I used to take him down to the park on a lead.

Only a Scotsman can really survive a Scottish education.

Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.

I want to know the truth, however perverted that may sound.