If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.

When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas.

You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid.

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.

I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others.

My job as an artist, as I see it, is to understand and in some cases to take on various ways of thinking about people and the world that are different from my own, sometimes radically different.

Home is

To reach the pinnacle of your writings potential

When email and the Internet came along, I never publish an email address. I just stuck with this P.O. Box address.

That's not how you're going to live, Bird Girl. Not on my account. Spread those strong wings of yours. Fly.

Systems programmers are the high priests of a low cult.

We have to put people on pedestals; otherwise, there's no one to knock off pedestals.

Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.

There’s no better guarantee of failure than convincing yourself that success is impossible, and therefore never even trying.

We love action and adventure, but we use it to go out and start wars and kill people.

I think acting is something that is within you. It's a very natural thing for me. It comes from myself, really.