As an artist, I think it is important for us to mark places in history where we have made progress, to celebrate by expressing that reality.

We are all more similar than we usually realize. So much of the suffering we do in our life is because of obsession with self.

Try to understand long before you move to judgment.

We are all more similar than we usually realize.

Becoming a father has definitely heightened my discomfort with uncertainty. I want to be able to say, I know what will happen, when, why. But most of the time, we just don't know.

One of my favorite things is watching my children learn something new. The combination of innocence and excitement makes a parent feel truly alive, even if only for a second and peripherally.

This is a lesson I continue to learn: Be content where you are!

I do not know everything, I never will, and that is OK.

You have to continually and actively watch for the best parts of someone else that will let you experience love.

Love is the feeling we get when we recognize the positive attributes in another.

Be content where you are! The sooner I let go of the notion that something could only be one way, the way I had planned it, without fail, I have always gotten more done and with far less discomfort.

There is no second place for doing first rate work.

Honor the old but allow for innovation.

It is one thing to know what is to come. It is another thing to confront it.

An election is a moral horror as bad as a battle except for the blood a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

Enemy occupied territory is what the world is.

Audience boredom is usually a content failure, not a decoration failure.

Certain things are complete superstition and have no validity at all in the Bible. Yeah. They're just the antithesis of everything that is correct intellectually.

At DePauw, I was teaching writing and fiction. The things I wanted to teach, more than anything else, were form and theory of the novel, of narrative. I liked those classes.

Perhaps because of this, many have looked at my practice in terms of science and technology, however, for me it is just as informed by Surrealism and mythology.

You can start any 'Monty Python' routine and people finish it for you. Everyone knows it like shorthand.