Life can be tough and harsh at times. That's what makes it great. Every day is a celebration of survival.

Life's too short to cavort with fork-tongued carnivores.

The harder you work, the more you produce, the more you create, the more you will be rejected. By people who never created shit.

The best thing about Art is that the people who create it live forever.

Conformity runs rampant through everyday life, and people want to read about characters that deviate from societal norms.

i Create. I don't "Need".Meaning: I don't need advice or criticism. Unless you're offering money, weed, or whiskey save it. Thanks.

Guns give Evil a means to expression.

I've done some stupid things I regret, but I've managed to keep my integrity. Which is important because integrity is fragile. Break it once and it's gone forever.

The mainstream media in America has become an insidious device of ignorance. They not only shape the story, but now participate. For what?

I'll never suppress my identity -- that's like filing away your fingerprints so the money can slide into your pockets easier.

Grammar perfect books are for Ivy Leaguers in Ivory Towers. My book is a sandcastle built on the beach of usefullness.

I can't protect you from knowledge.

Ah, grief makes us precise!

You are no longer a weak, susceptible human. You are Shaede, deadly and cunning. Never bow to that mortal weakness again.

Every second that you're filming, you have a myriad of choices to make.

I want very much to save what works and is good about the Affordable Care Act.

I believe in freedom of religion and freedom of choice and everybody do what they want to do. I don't wish to bring my beliefs onto other people.

When you're trying to build or change a culture, what do you do? I always say to take players from state championship teams because they only know one thing -- winning.

I was lost, and that war [in Vietnam] was very alienating - not that I was against it or for it, but I was just lost after that war. As were many Americans.

Only you can impact the world in the way that God uniquely assigned to you.

Seemingly the most easy of crafts, drawing is the one which reveals most tellingly our incapacity to sustain true vision and our acquiescence to the ready-made.