Life is a lonely bussiness

It’s one of my theories that when people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past.

Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else--that's how you'll get ahead.

Read deeply. Stay open. Continue to wonder.

Collect books, even if you don’t plan on reading them right away. Filmmaker John Waters has said, “Nothing is more important than an unread library.

Art that only comes from the head isn't any good.

If you ever find that you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.

Life is a lonely business

Nobody is born with a style or a voice. We don't out of the womb knowing who we are. In the beginning, we learn by pretending to be our heroes. We learn by copying.

My motto for creat

The way to get over creative block is to simply place some constraints on yourself. It seems contradictory, but when it comes to creative work, limitations mean freedom.

My tears brought no sense of release or relief. Their flight felt like the lightest, coldest touch of a departing lover.

Rain is used as white noise when God is disgusted by too much prayer, when the sky is stuffed to bursting with the noise of what people need.

For far too long, America has been without a comprehensive energy plan, and today consumers are paying the price - literally - at the pump and in their heating bills.

... we may remember what the Romansthought a cultivated person ought to be: one who knows how to choose his company among men, among things, among thoughts, in the present as well as in the past.

Survival must come before civilization.

You know, if ever there was a people who should know how to practice brotherhood, it is the American Negro and it is the people of Egypt.

Berlin is one of my favorite cities in the world. I feel like the energy is very youthful. It has such an important history, including its recent history of unification.

I thought I was an odd person, and since my hometown had only about 70,000 people in it, I knew I was going to have to leave there and go out and find other odd people.

Your words will tell others what you think. Your actions will tell them what you believe.

You have to have a sense of humor if you follow politics. Otherwise, the sheer fraudulence of it all will get you down.