Old age is a powerful disguise.

I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.

Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs.

When I'm drawing a picture, I feel...quiet inside.

Death's gruesome face taunts: soulless eyes, crimson grimace. I really hate clowns.

Growing up gorilla is just like any other kind of growing up. You make mistakes. You play. You learn. You do it all over again.

I think that in many ways, just as forgiveness is impossible without love, sometimes love requires forgiveness for it to work, too.

Her eyes hold the pale moon in them, the way a still pond holds stars.

Pain is life. Life is pain.

Mosquitoes are the greatest mass murderers on planet Earth.

Humans waste words. They toss them like banana peels and leave them to rot. Everyone knows the peels are the best part.

Rules of science.” Alessandro shrugged his elegant shoulders. “And what are those? We don’t even know how this works.” He pointed to his head.

Think of every contact a customer has with your brand as the most important encounter of your life.

As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.

I never knew that when you're number one on the call sheet you have not only the responsibility of carrying the film but also the responsibility of keeping up the morale of the crew and cast.

...for the system to be credible, people actually have to be deported at the end of the process.

There are lives lived for love, and lives lived for art. We, happy band, have chosen the later persuasion.

Light makes photography. Embrace light.

I think I'm better than I was in my younger days, because I'm exploring deep lyrical material, and I've been sober for a while now.

There is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap.

My approach has been that a player with determination and a willingness to work harder than anyone else can accomplish anything. It's a simple formula. I've found it works.