It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that it was.

In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.

We were as Hansel and Gretel and we ventured out into the black forest of the world.

I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth

Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.

Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?

It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies (p. 171).

He wasn't supposed to die, ' he cried out, somewhat desperately, petulantly, like a spoiled child. But I could hear other thoughts racing between us.Neither are you.Neither am I.

He wrote me a note to say we would create art together and we would make it, with or without the rest of the world.

I preferred an artist who transformed his time, not mirrored it.

I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one

We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.

The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.

The United States is the only advanced economy with no paid parental leave for either mothers or fathers.

You can't really achieve anything in three years.

Canon is basically a very aggressive company. Our company works on competitive principles. It does not treat people equally, but it does treat them fairly.

You will never rise above the image you have of yourself in your own mind.

I have two questions for you: What do you need to make your creativity shine through? Why do you keep ignoring it?

A crisis unmasks everyone.

So even though I couldn't bear writing about cancer, I faced it every day.

Sometimes we overemphasize the political system. There are other ways to make a difference. There's technology, there's media, there's business.