I think if anything I am perhaps more inclined than most people are to be polite and considerate because I am aware that human relationships are innately fragile and kind of dangerous.

It's the ordinary things that seem important to me.

I don't use photographs because photographs don't give me the kind of information I need.

My painting occurs when I think of two disparate elements.

I don’t intend to be menacing, but I do think of life as being essentially dangerous. We never know what’s going to happen from one day to the next.

Anxiety is the normality of our age.

The woman sees, I suppose, and the man does not.

I don't think there's such a thing as an evil animal.

If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars.

Each instant of life is a step toward death.

I have music in my head constantly. I have to have a soundtrack in my head.

Sweet sleep fell upon his eyelids, unwakeful, most pleasant, the nearest like death.

Research shows that when we're under stress or facing a major obstacle, we tend to focus on our weaknesses and what we're afraid of.

Growing up, I was a very shy, wallflower type. I was not a nerd, but not popular. I was just invisible, like that person you probably didn't know you were in school with.

I wear a lot of black, but not in the goth way, I just really love black. I'll never be in pink or purples.

I wish I can meet my wife in the hereafter, but I don't think I will. I just cease to exist just as she has ceased to exist.

And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted

Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.