[We often] criticize the people on TV: 'He just can't act.' 'You call that singing?' ... We get jealous not because we're evil, but because we have little artists pent up inside us.

The magic question is, 'What for?' But art is not for anything. Art is the ultimate goal.

We are all born artists. ... Almost everything kids do is art.

A novel, basically, is writing one sentence — then, without violating the scope of the first one, writing the next sentence.

I always take a close look at those who lose themselves in self portraits. They are solitary souls, prone to introspection, who have really grappled with their existence.

When the moon covers the sun, we have a solar eclipse. What do you call it when birds do that?

Novels are food for the leftover hours of life, the in-between times, the moments of waiting.

And still everything’s the same, even though I did my best to get as far away as I could.

The artistic desire reveals itself in dark form - in karaoke bars [or] trolling on the Internet.

Dont be a fish; be a frog. Swim in the water and jump when you hit ground.

Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic.

If one billion of you watch and do not intercede as one million of you assent to the one thousand who participate in the murder of a child, then one billion of you are a billion times guilty.

We're a walking billboard... You want to look good to everyone who is watching.

A girl is grown up when she stops counting on her fingers and starts counting on her legs.

I like making fun of myself a lot. I like being made fun of, too. I've always enjoyed it. There's just something really, really funny about someone tearing into me.

I didn't realize that television has gone through immense changes and has become very progressive.

I think I do speak to all ages, but the emphasis is, unlike everybody else who is chasing the Millennials, I'm not chasing the Millennials.

College men from L.S.U., went in dumb, come out dumb, too.

The narcissist act is not an act. I actually am a narcissist, very much so. My world revolves around me.

There's good in everybody. Boost. Don't knock.

What a state of society is this in which freethinker is a term of abuse, and in which doubt is regarded as sin?