Art makes better humans, art is necessary in understanding the world and art makes people happy. Undeniably, art is not optional.

I have realised that my worst day as an artist is still better than my best day as a lawyer.

Inspiration is tough to define, it comes from so many different places. I have multiple exhibitions touring the globe, so I do travel quite a bit and travel is a great way to find inspiration.

Over the years I have learned that creating art has made me happy. I used to be a lawyer and I'm much happier being an artist.

Truth is only what we like to hear....

Each of us needs something of an island in his life—if not an actual island, at least some place, or space in time, in which to be himself, free to cultivate his difference from others.

I have the charisma of the chipmunk. I never have thought I was smart. I thought the people I dealt with were dumb.

I try to protect my loved ones, the people I share my life with, because they don't have a public life like me. I want to keep their lives private out of respect for them.

Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.

Empathy lies at the heart of Gatsby, like so many other great novels-the biggest sin is to be blind to others problems and pains. Not seeing them means denying their existence.

You have the rest of your lives to catch up together. After all, soulmates always end up together. [...] Ey-girlfriends are easily forgotten. Best friends stay with you for ever.

Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; and life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.

Gun bans disarm victims, putting them at the mercy of murderers or terrorists who think nothing of breaking the gun laws.

I've done some things I wish I could erase. . . . I invented mistakes. But the mistakes must be seen in context, and they must be weighed along with the positives.