Adults forget that kids are their own best censors.

One person's craziness is another person's reality.

Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?

Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.

Don't worry about how you 'should' draw it. Just draw it the way you see it.

Live people ignore the strange and unusual. I myself, am strange and unusual.

Maybe it's just in America, but it seems that if you're passionate about something, it freaks people out. You're considered bizarre or eccentric. To me, it just means you know who you are.

If youve ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you. You can be happy or successful or whatever, but that thing still stays within you.

If I had a choice about going to a meeting at a studio or changing a nappy, I'd choose the nappy.

Drawing is exercise for a restless imagination.

I am the shadow on the moon at night/Filling your dreams to the brim with fright.

But you cant shut everyone out. I mean you have to have someone to love. . .someone to hold on to. . . someone--

You see, but you do not observe.

For a sampler, you could try my short story collection "Wireless". Which contains one novella that scooped a Locus award, and one that won a Hugo, and covers a range of different styles.

Socialism and SF are the two most fundamental influences in my life.

Priesthood ordinances are the pathway to the power of godliness.

People don't go to Starbucks for the coffee - of that I'm pretty sure - they go for the atmosphere, they go for the 70 decibels, they go for the Starbucks effect.

Weetzie wished she could shake blue glitter around all of them - keeping them sparkling and safe.

In peace, a wise man makes preparations for war.

Tension is anticipation and uncertainty. Every art has to have it.

The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself - this is called life.