We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

Gillard is as likeable as Rudd is charmless. She is self-deprecating

My reality isn't as gracious as it use to be, so I create things that are.

I like to be nice. I want to be a hero. I want to save people. Or just kill zombies, because they deserve it, because they're already dead and they can't feel it. They don't have feelings.

What is a house but a bigger skin, and a neighborhood map but the world's skin ever expanding?

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart

The wall is silence, the grass is sleep, Tall trees of peace their vigil keep, And the Fairy of Dreams with moth-wings furled. Plays soft on her flute to the drowsy world.

Trophies separate the winners from losers, and life is about winning and losing. Go into business and you see. You're competing every day.

These days, right now, these are the good old days. I've always approached it that way. That's why I'm still working. I'm not the guy who is ready to sit by the pool.

Don't compare yourself to anyone. Be happy to be the wonder unique, very special person that you are.

Many of my characters first came through to me as voices. That's why I use a tape recorder.