Art is about going a little nuts and justifying the next sentence.

[We often] criticize the people on TV: 'He just can't act.' 'You call that singing?' ... We get jealous not because we're evil, but because we have little artists pent up inside us.

The magic question is, 'What for?' But art is not for anything. Art is the ultimate goal.

We are all born artists. ... Almost everything kids do is art.

A novel, basically, is writing one sentence — then, without violating the scope of the first one, writing the next sentence.

I always take a close look at those who lose themselves in self portraits. They are solitary souls, prone to introspection, who have really grappled with their existence.

When the moon covers the sun, we have a solar eclipse. What do you call it when birds do that?

Novels are food for the leftover hours of life, the in-between times, the moments of waiting.

And still everything’s the same, even though I did my best to get as far away as I could.

The artistic desire reveals itself in dark form - in karaoke bars [or] trolling on the Internet.

Dont be a fish; be a frog. Swim in the water and jump when you hit ground.

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Good and evil are a great deal more complex than a princess and a dragon . . . is not the dragon the hero of his own story?

Not vain the weakest, if their force unite.

I decided that instead of apologizing for having a lot to say, I wanted to create a format where people would come to hear me sing and speak.

I don't feel pain cause it's all in the mind, And what's mines is mines and yours is mine!

Normally, as long as I'm telling him what to do, he wins in a fight.

Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.

Junkies might be easy to knock down, but they're never fragile. They have souls like old leather shoes studded with steel, and they're about as much good as friends.

Israel has a sizeable nuclear arsenal and could retaliate if it were attacked.

Do certain sets of circumstances lie ahead of us wherein we change the world radically by the choices we make?