I still found literary criticism to be a suspect activity

I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.

I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself.

Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure

And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me.

Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.

It's a hard thing to age a character because you can't really suddenly give someone gray hair.

If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.

I'll watch a movie only if it meets the following criteria: 1. It has to have at least two women in it. 2. Who talk to each other. 3. About something besides a man.

It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!

The writing is hard, and the drawing is fun. It's very satisfying to see a drawing start to come together.

People are like pistachios. Some of them open up easily, but there are others who need to be really broken to get into.- RVM

Ji Wenzi always thought thrice before acting. Hearing this the Master said, "Twice is enough.

Deep within every crisis is an opportunity for something beautiful.

It struck me then how much the past - not just the past but history and family - was like the ocean tide. It was always the same ocean, but the waves made it fresh and new each time.

An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity.

Managing and navigating through a financial crisis is no fun at all.

Vote bank politics has put the future of our youth in darkness.

We must live more simply so that the poor may simply live.

Man, like the bridge, was designed to carry the load of the moment, not the combined weight of a year at once.