It's important to discuss ideas but it's more important to surrender control and preconceptions.

Original artistic invention demands that even the inventor be surprised.

The uncut sheets of colored glass are really seductive, awesome, and unarguably lovely things. Naturally, the temptation to cut and damage all that pristine beauty is too much for me to resist.

Preconceptions and knowledge really only get you to the edge of where creativity begins. Then intuition and faith take over, hopefully.

Whenever you can call your enemy and tell him that you truly love him with compassion, then you are practicing the power of true love.

She loosened her grip on his hair and lightly scraped her fingernails over his cheek to his incredible lips."I could kiss you all day."Laith's gaze intensified."All right.

Time goes by: reputation increases ability declines.

The best way to prove that a stick is crooked is to set a straight one beside it. No words need to be spoken.

In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.

If I'm on a bus and someone makes my blood boil, I'll pocket those emotions and put them in a song.

I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer, and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job.

Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

For centuries, man believed that the sun revolves around the earth. Centuries later, he still thinks that time moves clockwise.

The main thing going on in the 20th century is a dissolving of boundaries, all the boundaries that historical civilization put in place.