On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.

Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence.

Sometimes, in a daze, they completely dismantled the cadaver, then found themselves hard put to it to fit the pieces together again.

The morality of art consists, for everyone, in the side that flatters its own interests. People do not like literature.

Writing is a solitary occupation.

I promise permanence. I promise persistence. I promise that falling in love was just the beginning for us.

The funny thing is people won't let me pay for things. I'll be in a restaurant and the manager will say, 'Oh no, it's on the house.'

The Obama administration will never say 'radical Islam.' Never.

Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.

My "mission", if you can call it that, is to connect with my readers on an emotional level and have them come away with a stronger impression of the basic message in the story I am illustrating.

Wherever she was, holy laughter was present to heal and redeem.

Rich people are wiling to act in spite of fear. Poor people let fear stop them.

Don't explain, enjoy.