Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.

There is no such thing as a baby, there is a baby and someone.

It is a joy to be hidden, and disaster not to be found.

The fact that grief takes so long to resolve is not a sign of inadequacy, but betokens depth of soul.

Tell me what you fear and I will tell you what has happened to you.

Feeling real is more than existing; it is finding a way to exist as oneself... and to have a self into which to retreat for relaxation.

Creativity consists in maintaining a key aspect of the experience of childhood throughout one's life: the capacity to create and recreate the world. Creativity is the omnipotence of the child's mind.

The precursor of the mirror is the mother's face.

The capacity to still feel wonder is essential to the creative process.

It is in playing, and perhaps only in playing, that the child is free to be creative.

It's a poor thing to be sane!

Take my books away, and I should be desperate!

Peculiar I say, how so often the smallest, most seemingly insignificant details later unveil their faces as vital means for progression.

But my patience isn't limitless... unlike my authority.

This murder of Hariri was deliberately planned and executed precisely to implicate Syria and to set in train the events which have unfolded.

And by another year, Such as God knows, with freer air, More fruits and fairer flowers Will bear, While I droop here.

Writing is grunt work - you need to have self-motivation, perseverance, and faith... talent is the smallest part of it.

Roll the weed up Somebody turn the beat up While I continue to spit relax and kick yo feet up Mac game so cold make yo nose runny Mac game so cold takin' hoes money

Larousse has a place of honor on every cookbook shelf in America.

The audience seems hazy to me, shrouded in a veil through which I can't see.

Every once in a while, someone will mail me a single popcorn kernel that didn't pop. I'll get out a fresh kernel, tape it to a piece of paper and mail it back to them.