And the mind actually does generate electrical currents - very weak ones and not necessarily ones that can be picked up by anyone else.

I like contrasting between black and white and color.

I know where the mistakes are. Nothing is perfect and I understand that.

I try not to manipulate reality... What will happen, will happen. Let things be themselves.

I like the work hanging free in the frame. I don't like too much frame around it but I like a little breathing space around the piece.

I like working late at night and then going into the house and sitting down and watching a movie and then going to sleep.

I had always worked. I always had part-time jobs.

I relied mainly on other artists, who I think are smarter than critics, any critics or curators or anybody like that. They really know.

I liked the idea of the words floating in space and the space behind it moving all the time, ever changing.

And we live in a kind of realm of language and words and so forth. So we can sort of relate to them. They don't exist without us. We create words.

Art was something that I was really interested in, probably more so than writing or anything else.

Ideas can never be traced to any one source. They are tossed back and forth between people until the decision makers step in and choose what they think is a success formula.

Oh. Sure. It makes perfect sense. Zane is a wolf because his father is an eagle.

If you are honest, truthful, and transparent, people trust you. If people trust you, you have no grounds for fear, suspicion or jealousy.

He grieved too, Klara said, for the loss of a certain idea of himself.

How we remember what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.

Yo, I failed ninth grade three times, but I don't think it was necessarily 'cause I'm stupid.

When a customer enters my store, forget me. He is king.

The music you love when you're a teenager is always going to be the most important to you.

A shocked sense of justice has to be removed and justice restored.

The truth is what I make it. I could set this world on fire and call it rain.