Imagination continually frustrates tradition; that is its function.

Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.

I told the doctor I was overtired, anxiety-ridden, compulsively active, constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia. Turns out I'm normal.

Design is important because chaos is so hard.

I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father.

We are all continually embarking on first drafts, in every aspect of our lives.

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

If you are not able to communicate successfully between yourself and yourself, how are you supposed to make it with the strangers outside?

Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?

Writing, I explained, was mainly an attempt to out-argue one's past; to present events in such a light that battles lost in life were either won on paper or held to a draw.

Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence.

Everybody likes Johnny Cash. I think the sad part of it is his health is givin' him problems.

The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.

Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.

A gentleman doesn't kiss and tell

If you look around the room, and you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.

Unless you got a really good reason, you should be nice.

A great teacher makes hard things easy.

A man's life is an appendix to his heart.

At the end of the day, you sign a record deal and you understand where it could go if you had the right song.

A movie has its own fate, which often doesn’t depend on the performances of the director and actors.