My paintings are so legible, I feel guilty.

Writing gave me a second chance - not to change things, but to savor them. That is a great gift.

You are actually constructing... what your head understood about what your eyes saw.

The real function of the artist is to give fresh vision to their own generation.

Take a moment to think... See - logically.

I don't want to see any art-writing gobbledygook or overblown words in an essay about me. If a smaller, simpler word will do - use it.

Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.

Attraction is so much more than a pretty face. It’s face is passion, attitude, kindness, & faith.

My dad got me a chemistry book one Christmas and I burnt the garden shed down. I remember there was the most beautiful smell forever after in the remains.

I don't have a method. All I do is read a lot, think a lot, and rewrite constantly. It's not a scientific thing.

Is Islam a religion of peace? I'm sure for some of the practitioners, but it's been hijacked by people who have an ideology that wants to destroy western civilization, and they're barbarians.

I wasn't that into crime novels at all, but a friend introduced me to the work of Jim Thompson - I loved all his books.

Children can tell you what Channel 7 says, but not what Matthew 7 says.

Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.

The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is that we may listen the more and talk the less.

The major difference between the big shot and the little shot is the big shot is just a little shot who kept on shooting.