One must be deeply aware of the impermanence of the world.

To escape from the world means that one's mind is not concerned with the opinions of the world.

Every man possesses the Buddha-nature. Do not demean yourselves.

Nothing can be gained by extensive study and wide reading. Give them up immediately.

To enter the Buddha Way is to stop discriminating between good and evil and to cast aside the mind that says this is good and that is bad.

A novel must be judged on its merits, not on how hard the journey was to write it.

If it wasn’t for all those silver wings spread out to help you on your journey, you would’a been dead or someplace screamin’ in a nut house a long time ago.

One man's Mona Lisa is another man's velvet Elvis.

I drink coffee in the morning and a few cups throughout the day. Among coffee's health benefits are lower risk of Parkinson's, Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and dementia.

I'm a very big believer in collaboration and teamwork.

So I’m putting my defenses up, cause I don’t wanna fall in love. If I ever did that. I think I’d have a heart attack.

Narrative and characters have always interested me. I never tried to alienate an audience. Of course, gradually, I wanted a bigger and bigger space to draw people in, so it's very organic [growth].

I played in a death-metal band. People either loved us or hated us. Or they thought we were OK.

I put all of my time into art because I couldn't go back to Jersey and work at Starbucks.

I love John Waters. There's stuff in it that's beyond the boundaries of my taste, but his movies have always been like that.