A good writer is one you can read without breaking a sweat.

Whenever there's something wrong with your writing, suspect that there's something wrong with your thinking.

The transaction between writer and reader is human civilization's most dazzling feat, yet it's such a part of our lives that it's, well, prosaic.

Art is the product of an imperfect world. In a perfect world, art would not exist.

When he admires the man he calls his father--a man who is slightly above 'the scum of the earth', what does that say about the man who admire him?

You are taking things far too literally. Everything you see is merely a symbol for things you do not see. Most of the people of this world are asleep in their minds.

No politician should ever let himself be photographed in a bathing suit.

The moment artists can just do what they love to do then music will go right back to where it used to be. I mean back in the '60s and '70s and '80s, that's what it was.

No More Avengers! There's nothing new to get out of it - I want to go forward, not backward.

There is no confidence in the Arab world today in the United States of America.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

We need to be more sensitive to each other.

Those who constantly try to impress others will quickly depress themselves.