So go on, get angry. But keep your mouth shut and go do your work.

The only way to find your voice is to use it. It’s hardwired, built into you. Talk about the things you love. Your voice will follow.

It’s one of my theories that when people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past.

Usually, when we talk about creativity, it's about self-expression, which is great, but for work to be art or design, there has to be someone on the other end. The audience makes the work come alive.

Don't wait until you know who you are to get started.

Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else--that's how you'll get ahead.

You can’t be content with mastery; you have to push yourself to become a student again.

You’re only going to be as good as the stuff you surround yourself with.

The thing is: It takes a lot of energy to be creative. You don't have that energy if you waste it on other stuff.

Don't worry about doing research. Just search.

You can't find your voice if you don't use it.

Even gods are following trends. They are afraid to be forgotten by their creators

Us Asians look like we're twenty until we're fifty. Once we're fifty, we look like Yoda.

I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it.

where a man feels at home, outside of where he’s born, is where he’s meant to go.

The deeds of men, as footprints in the desert. Nothing under the circling moons is fated to last. Even the sun goes down.

What's gone will never come back, but it exists when you think of it.

Fantasy and science fiction are where my brain lives.

It ought to be the business of every day to prepare for our last day.

The current system punishes communities which make the investment in creating landfills, only to have them filled by states which refuse to adequately address their waste issues.

There is real value in these local congregations. For me, a lot of it is the value of the sacraments we share. In neighborhoods like ours, the churches provide stability.