The pen isn’t really the weapon - the work ethic is the weapon.

I would have to say that I’m haunted. I’m haunted by everything that drives me. I want to do great work. I need to do great work. I won’t be satisfied unless I do great work.

Music is a big influence in my work and sometimes drives the energy of where I want to go.

No one touches me when I write my story, unless I hire you to or I allow you to.

Work controls my life, writing controls my life, performing controls my life.

[My] hunger and thirst was, and still remains: How do I get people who hate poetry to love me?

[I've] learned how to pull the mic away and attack the poetry with my body.

He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.

Writing is a lonely act. When two writers come together to write a horror story it can be crazy. You can't step on a mine and hope it doesn't explode.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

Do you wish to see clearly and be free?

I love your hair! It's kind of messy but like, done.

My aim was never to be an American star; otherwise, I would have moved to Los Angeles.

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

The interesting thing is that I found scenes which I put together which could appeal to almost every woman, or apply to almost every woman after the war. Falling in love, dancing, marrying.

Bullying is an evil because it not only destroys the life of the kid who's bullied, but also makes everyone in the class who knows this is going on feel guilty for not doing anything.

I am afraid that if we begin to put our trust in human help, some of our Divine help will fail us.