Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?

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?

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.

Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence.

The good thing about the laws of physics is that they require no law enforcement agencies to maintain them

...since I realized that he (Picasso) lived in a self-enclosed world and that his solitude was therefore total, I wanted to explore my own solitude.

Do not believe the road signs. There is no "one way." If it's your truth then it's the right way.

It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed the deeper they burn.

It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.

The amphibious landing of U.S. Marines on September 1950 at Inchon, on the west coast of Korea, was one of the most audacious and spectacularly successful amphibious landings in all naval history.

Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a big shoebox full of unfinished ideas.

Researchers in England say tall men are more likely to have more children than short men. Here in America we call that the NBA theory.

Well, once you get involved with bloodsport litigation, you can not only get drunk on your own greed but start to believe your own lies.

There's a lot of your family in tonight.