It's not just that toil allows the appearance of spontaneity. It allows the actuality of spontaneity.

This sort of encouragement is vital for any writer. And lastly the publication of Touching the Flame, which was on hold for two years and went through a few publishers before finding a stable home.

I don't know anyone who actually likes the dark or night-time. I don't care how much they say it doesn't bother them. That's why we used to huddle in caves and light fires when the sun went down.

Having said that, I'm a huge Jack Nicholson fan because he just goes nuts in everything he does. Having Jack in his heyday would also be a dream come true.

Sometimes I'll hear a phrase or a word and write it down in my little black notebook (a writer's best mate), then come back to it and work a plot around it.

The joy of painting lies precisely in the challenge of memory and the challenge of translation from the lived experience to the two-dimensional or three-dimensional symbol.

Painting is a matter of finding the right balance between consoling and reassuring the eye and challenging and disturbing the eye.

Photos represent primarily a seductive but deleterious short cut.

The face of totalitarianism turned out to be a mask - obviously - but the face of Capitalism has no face at all.

Considering the amount of work I put into each piece, the amount I need to make from it is pretty high. I won't sell for less... but that means I rarely sell.

Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots of writers live quite isolated lives.

Our expectation in ourselves must be higher than our expectation in others.

For most normal people, politics is a distant, occasionally irritating fog.

Chase and I are in this for the long haul. I've stood before him and he's stood before me. And this is what it's all come down to: Chase Gartner is my future, my forever. And I, I am his.

You must worship the Self in Krishna, not Krishna as Krishna.

When you doubt, abstain.

Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow / No tomorrow, no tomorrow.

We need to talk with each other, honestly, simply, caringly.

When we know what we want to prove, we go out and find our facts. They are always there.

The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation.

If you think you are going to win, you'll lose. Moreover, if you think you are going to lose, you'll lose.