I always liked those characters in 'True Blood' who could turn into animals. I'd love to be an animal of some kind and run quickly through a forest.

I drink coffee. Without coffee, I probably couldnt write.

People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused.

I am part of a vast generation of people who perpetually live as if they just graduated from college.

I need to stay in the present and use that new-age mantra: 'I'm okay right now.' But I worry about all the things I'm failing at every moment.

I've always been intrigued by Stockholm Syndrome. Reminds me of my childhood.

Having a show get canceled is like, 'Oh, you have caviar between your teeth,' you know what I mean? Because you had a show in the first place.

Something has happened where you almost never grow up in America. Maybe it's the greater wealth.

I don't really recognise success. I don't see myself as on an upwardly mobile trajectory. I see myself as on the edge of a cliff about to fall off.

Oh, God, I don't know what's more difficult, life or the English language.

I am always the source of the worst rumors about myself.

In an age of hope men looked up at the night sky and saw “the heavens." In an age of hopelessness they call it simply “space.

A scientist is proud of his intelligence, an artist is proud of his imagination.

There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades.

Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two's is the most important thing. Kids get heavy. Quite literally. They're heavy to lift up when they're throwing tantrums.

I think my family love each other so much and expect so much from each other, and I think we expect a type of honesty in the work that we all do.

I see my work as visual meditations on the human experience and my attempts to capture the thin, otherwordly realm I believe exists between what we see and what we cannot.

We should constantly be aspiring to reach higher and higher and higher. We should never be comfortable where we are.

There is no such thing as an ex-exhibitionist.

I've done so many independents for so many years. Leads that nobody's seen.