The artwork had very little to do with the thought process, and the writing too, for that matter. What happens, happens, and it happens outside the brain.

Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.

I told the doctor I was overtired, anxiety-ridden, compulsively active, constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia. Turns out I'm normal.

Design is important because chaos is so hard.

I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father.

We are all continually embarking on first drafts, in every aspect of our lives.

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

If you are not able to communicate successfully between yourself and yourself, how are you supposed to make it with the strangers outside?

Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?

Imagination continually frustrates tradition; that is its function.

Writing, I explained, was mainly an attempt to out-argue one's past; to present events in such a light that battles lost in life were either won on paper or held to a draw.

My heart is a harness of nothing, deflated balloon, and a place of loss.

No matter wherever you are, share your joy to make this world joyful and better.

May we store up the truths of God’s Word in our hearts as much as possible, so that we are prepared for whatever suffering we are called upon to endure.

When am I going to learn to stop questioning authority and just eat the Soylent Green?

I'm in the worst place you can be. I sell magazines and not movie tickets.

Dancing is a sweat job.

All is lost. Monks, monks, monks!

Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon.

I have a lot of wonderful people in my life - probably five, collectively - who I can tell everything to.

Dorian Yates and I have nothing in common, physically speaking. He's a Volkswagen; I'm a Porsche.