My own perception of cops was that they came into your neighborhood, they roughed up people that you loved for no reason and took them away. As a child you saw that.

To call the police is a really big deal because you don't snitch - that's the culture you grow up in.

I loved to write; in my late teens I had a 'zine. But it wasn't until I went back to school, later on in my 20s, that I actually saw that I had writing talent.

Why don't you just ease up a little bit, just be professional. Maybe you're over-investing - maybe you're caring a little too much.

In terms of having to uphold something, I don't need any added pressure. I need to be free in the work.

If at first you don’t succeed, you’re doing it wrong. Learn from the experience. Try again, but with a different approach.

His was an impenetrable darkness. I looked at him as you peer down at a man who is lying at the bottom of a precipice where the sun never shines.

The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.

The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.

The overarching factor to me is if we can't be kind to each other, we won't be kind to the planet.

You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.

One of the things that I discovered in my research is that some serial killers build an ultimate reality around themselves that they believe in, 100%.

Just do what you believe in, and success will follow.

The Christians to the lions sold out every night.

I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.