I think of a piece, and then people who are competent fabricate it. But lately I've started finger painting, which probably should be a joke but isn't!

At times inactivity is preferable to mindless functioning.

You are a victim of the rules you live by.

My arrogance knows no bounds and I will make no peace today, and you should be so lucky to find a woman like me.

TRYING TO BE POPULAR IN HIGH SCHOOL IS LIKE TRYING TO BE MAYOR OF A CITY THAT WON'T EXIST IN FOUR YEARS.

If you have many desires your life will be interesting.

Protect me from what I want.

All things are delicately interconnected.

I used language because I wanted to offer content that people - not necessarily art people - could understand.

THERE IS A PERIOD WHEN IT IS CLEAR THAT YOU HAVE GONE WRONG BUT YOU CONTINUE. SOMETIMES THERE IS A LUXURIOUS AMOUNT OF TIME BEFORE ANYTHING BAD HAPPENS.

Slipping into madness is good for the sake of comparison

Everyone has a heart, but not everyone listens to another's

Of course, there [in China] has to be chaos. It has to be crazy, and I don't think there's anything wrong about it except this government, which is really incapable of doing anything meaningful.

A brisk, bright, blue-eyed fellow, a very neat figure and rather under the middle size, never out of the way and never in it.

If it's a broken part, replace it. If it's a broken arm then brace it. If it's a broken heart, then face it.

Why are breakfast foods breakfast foods?

I want to write something so simple, so short and so silly... and I want it to be for my brother.

Would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy of finding someone to love?

Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights.

My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages.

Talent is never static. It's always growing or dying.