It is not size or age that separates children from adults. It is responsibility.

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?

Imagination continually frustrates tradition; that is its function.

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.

Love is the only mirror we must use to judge ourselves and others.

Whatever fills your heart with joy and fills your mind with love--that is your truth of love.

Friends usually bring out better versions of each other. People feel unguarded and fluid with their close friends.

Creativity is not being afraid to be different. It takes madness to jump at an idea that no one else believes in.

Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all.

But keep on working and hoping still. For in spite of the grumblers who stand about, somehow, it seems, all things work out.

KITSIS: What you see at the beginning and think you know is absolutely not what you're going to know at the end.

Leaving your ears open to the suggestions of others only closes the mind's eye, thereby creating a type of spiritual glaucoma.

For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all around him.

You have to find a way to not become bitter and live within the parameters of the situation and laugh your way through it…and you hope for a better day for the next generation.