Patriotism is the primary moral armor of our ground combatants.

It's easy to be disciplined when you have no freedoms.

Writers should be read - but neither seen nor heard.

Redemption is promised at the low price of surrender of your critical faculties.

I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys

I could go to juvie instead of real prison.

You have to be tenacious, you have to be focused, you have to have a real vision, and be extremely passionate about it.

If you are completely comfortable with your life, and feeling absolutely no anxiety, then you are probably coasting, and not really growing.

Whenever I have a serious problem or some assignment of a creative nature...I always receive more assistance in the early morning hours than at any other time of the day.

People have something on their mind. It almost feels [on marches against now-President Donald Trump] like after-tragedy. People seem sort of preoccupied.

A person's heart withers if it does not answer another heart.

Affection is created by habit, community of interests, convenience and the desire of companionship. It is a comfort rather than an exhilaration.