I hope to work through disappointment and frustration with as much grace as [Georgia] O'Keeffe did, and I hope to have the same confidence in my own vision.

I knew the basic outline of the novel [The Dissemblers] and would write whatever scene of the book I felt particularly excited about at the time.

I lived in New Mexico until I was seventeen, and honestly I've been homesick ever since I left.

I do think that it is one of the eternal questions about art, though - is all art intrinsically selfish?

Does art play a role in the greater good of society, or does it just promote the satisfaction of the artist? I go back and forth on that question.

The motivation to paint seems more pure, or at least more personal, when the artist is doing it for herself.

I've spent many a day worrying that I will never be able to write again!

I am a tragically bad artist.

I did take one drawing class in school, but for this book I spent a lot of time talking to painters and asking them silly questions.

I read letters and journal entries by [Georgia] O'Keeffe (which were infinitely more useful than any critical analysis of her work).

The book [The Dissemblers] officially came out two weeks after my thirtieth birthday...am I still young?

Men love pleasure.

Hope for peace!Dream for peace!Act for peace!Live in peace!Life is for peace!

The rewards in business go to the man who does something with an idea.

I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.

You can judge a country by the way it treats its prisoners, and you can always judge a show by the way it treats people coming on to do these guest shots.

Pain is a great teacher, but most of us would rather learn some other way.

To me, we're marketing hope.

I've known since day one of working on Spring Awakening - back in 1999 - that it was special.

Lord, if your people need me, I will not refuse the work. Your will be done.

Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws.