In real life, people are going by fast and it's hard to draw them from my eye alone in a split second.

I've kept voluminous diaries since I was eighteen, and do a lot of experimental writing.

Both of my parents were cartoonists - they met in art school - so I was always drawing and I was the best artist in my class and all that stuff.

I like to follow my own muse.

You set your reality and carefully construct it so that it has a certain feeling, an energy. That's the vital, visceral thing about making an illustration.

Often the energy of a piece is more exciting to me than the subject.

Like everyone, I want to make my own "fine art."

Time and space, and freedom. That's what I want most. Isn't that true for all of us?

Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.

Every politician in the world is all for revolution, reason, and disarmament-but only in enemy countries, not in his own.

I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age

Controversy chases the Russian writer Vladimir Sorokin the way a dog chases a stick.

One finger up, and I'm out Cause you ain't even worth two

Sometimes I wish I was just a girl in an indie band. I could dance around on stage and it wouldn't be so much about me.

The gift of darkness draws you to know God’s presence beyond what thought, imagination, or sensory feeling can comprehend.

Well, look at all of these summer blockbusters. You can't help but laugh a little, because you've already seen a lot of these movies 482 times.

The first time I went to Mexico, it was really difficult. Number one is the language, I didn't know any Spanish language. Of course, the culture itself. Very different from where I grew up.

We have to work together to do a better job than we did in the last few generations.