Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self.

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.

Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.

Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.

If you ever expect to write fairytales, you've got to get your head in the clouds.

If I can fool a bug... I can surely fool a man. People are not as smart as bugs.

A million dollars isn't what it used to be.

I don't do a lot of collaborations that I don't believe in. Actually, I don't do any collaborations that I don't believe in.

Everybody likes their coffee different.

The more man becomes irradiated with Divinity, the more, not the less, truly he is man.

Among the things that you, and you alone, are the absolute and final judge of is whether or not you are a success.

For a painter as abstract as myself, the collages offer a way of incorporating bits of the everyday world into pictures.

I confess, I'm not the biggest fan of Twilight.