You have to be willing to recognize failure.

If you love everything you do, you will probably end up with mediocre work. I think dissatisfaction with the state of things does propel creative people forward.

Most artists probably feel lonely or set apart in childhood. But they grow up and find people who share their interests.

Art never lies, I believe.

The pleasure that attaches to the artistic life comes in imagining what we might do as opposed to acknowledging what we have done.

When you feel your book is the height of irrelevance you can return to the excitement of the daily news.

The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.

I love the friendly faces of old sorrows

I do want children. I study dads more. I watch what they go through. I admire my father more than I ever did and my brother and my sister.

We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real.

What we fear we often rage against.

I'm a private contractor now. I choose my clients, not the other way around.

I don't think any other emotion is the equivalent of laughter. So I do whatever I can to laugh all the time and to hide my pain.

Whether hunting is right or wrong, a spiritual experience, or an outlet for the killer instinct, one thing it is not is a sport.

I am down with the latest trends. And everyone knows, the thing on the streets is vampires. So I have been biting people on the neck.

No goal, regardless of how small can be achieved without adequate training.