I actually feel awkward being at the center of attention.

If everyone is trying to prevent error, it screws things up.

If you give a good idea to a mediocre group, they'll screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a good group, they'll fix it. Or they'll throw it away and come up with something else.

You are not your idea, and if you identify too closely with your ideas, you will take offense when they are challenged.

If you aren't experiencing failure, then you are making a far worse mistake: You are being driven by the desire to avoid it.

Creativity doesn't follow titles. It just comes from where it comes from.

Art isn't about drawing; it's about learning to see. What organization doesn't need this ability?

Success hides problems...you don't need to address problems.

For me, creativity includes problem-solving. That's the broad definition of it.

Every creative person can draft into service those around them who exhibit the right mixture of intelligence, insight, and grace.

I love solving the problems of having groups work together and removing barriers. But to actually turn around and be in the center of that is an awkward place to be.

It is a common sentence that knowledge is power

We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.

To me, it's OK to have differences. But we don't have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that's where sometimes we get so passionate that we - you know, it turns into anger.

My mother tried to kill me when I was a baby. She denied it. She said she thought the plastic bag would keep me fresh.

Even though I'm a believer, I still find it really hard to be around other believers. They make me nervous, they make me twitch. I sorta watch my back.

Magazine stories, the best ones anyway, are generally a combination of three elements: access, narrative, and disclosure.

There is an episode [in "Mary and Jane"] where there is not a lot of pot smoking, but there is a giant wall of weed in their apartment.

Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.

everything happens to an artist; time is always redeemed, nothing is lost and wonders never cease.

I remember her telling me once that rabbits were the gnomes in attendance to the Fairy Queen and that the stars were God's daisy chain. Perfect rot, of course.