I was exactly having fun. I was stone miserable, but I wasn't hating doing it; I was loving doing it, but it's just damaged and warped.

I'm not sure that Van Gogh got up in the morning and looked at the crows and the bizarre clouds and went damn that's a good painting, you know? No, he considered shooting himself, and one day he did.

I like to write adventure stories; that's what I tell myself. But you can't help letting your own personality, your own experiences, slip through.

We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust.

Every invention eventually becomes obsolete.

I think the word is counter-productive. Capitalism is counter-productive to art, just as the Catholic Church was counter-productive to art four hundred years ago.

I was always totally convinced that three weeks after the revolution they'd put me up against the wall and shoot me.

You can't go home and listen to Chopin, and just use it.

Perseverance....It sometimes makes you look like a foolWorking at something that that doesn't look cool.Never mind if people mock you from their stoolWhen you are enthroned they will drool!

Respect for people is the cornerstone of communication and networking.

Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness natives give it solidity and continuity but the settlers give it passion.

Instead of a permit system or regulations, the Forest Service needs to reduce worldwide population growth to limit the number of visitors to wilderness.

T is the summer prime, when the noiseless air in perfumed chalice lies.

Cats always land on their feet. Dogs don't.

The poster child of Web 2.0 is Flickr.com. Personalization is a key piece of Web 2.0.

Hold on to 16 as long as you can.

If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.

The more successful paintings just fall off the brush. The less successful ones take longer.