Don't ever let anyone or anything stop you from pushing forward with your past behind you. The land of success and happiness is big enough for everybody to reside in.

I would have been trying to pitch a concept about my community to someone that most likely was not a part of that community.

Writers sometimes are paid a great deal of money, but much more frequently they're not paid or are paid only a little bit.

Marketers need to adapt a "members first" approach to content.

There is a pain so utter, it swallows being up; The covers the abyss with a trance So memory can step around, across, upon it.

The white room is an interior to be made devoid of any specific sensualism emanated by objects. Ultimately it is classic white canvas expanded into three-dimensional space.

I hate violence, and I didn't plan to write horror; it just poured out of me.

That's where I got the idea to paint the walls of the gallery with varied colours [at the Whitechapel show]. I tried to figure out how all these Renaissance paintings manage to work together.

Good things come to those who initiate.

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

The Christian man must aim at that complete obedience to God in which life finds its highest happiness, its greatest good, its perfect consummation, its peace.