Making art, I try to just gently persist, instead of having freak-outs where I'm like, Oh, my god, I'll never draw again. You are going to draw again, so you might as well relax.

If you have one person you’re influenced by, everyone will say you’re the next whoever. But if you rip off a hundred people, everyone will say you’re so original!

Don’t worry about a style. It will creep up on you and eventually you will have to undo it in order to go further.

I don't like religion very much. I think it's all about people trying to be very certain about things that are very uncertain.

People like being alike, joining up, and being part of something.

If you keep pushing paint when you're tired of it, you lose sensitivity. I can only focus on painting for a few hours, so I'll stop and work on something quite different.

I pray, but who I pray to I'm not exactly sure, especially when I'm praying for more money.

I notice inspiration when it comes by. I don't sit down at my desk and try to write.

The foundation of adult trust is not "You will never hurt me." It is "I trust myself with whatever you do.

Humanity is a comic role.

Start small.Start now.Start everything.And don’t bother to finish any of it.

Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.

It breaks my heart that I don't see my daughters every day, don't get to hug them and brush their hair.

It's not a very big thing to say, 'I made a mistake' on the war, and typical of Hillary Clinton that she can't.

People who think well, write well

My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.

I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.

The machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry.