Art is a reflection on life. Life isn’t something we can cut and fix. It’s always in a state of flux.

If you touch something you leave a charge on it, and anybody else touching it connects with you, in a way.

I come from a place where you have a lot of sky. But [in New York City] you have to really look up to realize that there is eventually sky, somewhere. ...Sky is not a common commodity.

I wish that I spoke more languages because I think each language is a window completely.

True freedom comes from continuous self-development.

I took only one suitcase, and a cosmetics case for medicines but I was worried about books. Solitude is all right with books, awful without.

Government has the power to help improve well-being

Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise. And so I started writing and drawing at an early age.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I embrace each moment as an opportunity for a miracle.

From Bourbon Street to Baton Rouge, the freaks come out at night in Louisiana. And nowhere are they more raucous and unnerving than at Tiger Stadium.

When the reader hears strong echoes of his or her own life and beliefs, he or she is apt to become more invested in the story.

It would be superfluous to receive by faith, things that can be known by natural reason

The story of the human race is war. Except for brief and precarious interludes there has never been peace in the world; and long before history began murderous strife was universal and unending.