The abstract has no emotional content... the abstract is more powerful the more abstract it is.

Knowing there is a structure, hidden or felt, to the random gives pleasure.

I love paper. A nice thick pile of it and a pencil, and I'm content.

No other species flees from boredom with as much urgency as we do. We are far more eager to do brain work than we are to do physical labor.

If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.

I'm better at being a lawyer than I am at being a writer.

As the art world changes, artists have more and more responsibility. You don't have a lot of luxury to be super secluded.

At all events, I do not mean to leave it unaltered.

Vengeance and revenge are just two words for pain.

Pray as if it's up to God, work as if it's up to you.

There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.

How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.