I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.

When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with. I rarely make any major changes.

It all depends on which side of the desk you're sitting on.

I always wanted to fire rays out of my fingertips.

I think jazz and comic books are probably the two uniquely American art forms.

In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home.

A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.

Unfortunately, there are writers whose only concern is how good they could make themselves look on a title.

I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort.

A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall.

There are those to whom one must advise madness.

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

Use beautiful to describe a sandwich, and the word means nothing.

Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.

What do they teach them at these schools?

I spent years crying in my diary. But I finally stopped finding fault with myself. We're all different, yet the same.

Today is a new day, so rise up and move forward into the victory God has prepared for you!

No one really listens to the drums, I don't think. They're there, but it's not a conscious thing to listen to. Everyone listens to the vocals, of course, and the words.

A wise general makes a point of foraging of the enemy.