This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.

It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.

The Worst thing that Good could do to Evil was ignore it...

I've had my fills of cocaine and pills.

I never want to be the poster guy. It's not me.

I never want to paint anything just to make a pretty picture. The only reason I do this is because it's an outlet, it's emotional.

I love the truth. Whether it's painful or wonderful, it always widens my perspective and changes me. It helps move me forward.

It's a super super strange world when the actors are the less weird ones.

Many littles make a much.

It is a fact that you project what you are.

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

The airline business is fast-paced, high risk, and highly leveraged. It puts a premium on things I like to do. I think I communicate well. And I am very good at detail. I love detail.