The fun thing about insanity is that it is often so very hard to tell it apart from brilliance.

She loved them so much that she felt a kind of hollowness on the inner surface of her arms whenever she looked at them- an ache of longing to pull them close and hold them tight against her.

...nothing seemed quite as romantic as holding hands while you climaxed.

The first movement ballerina should be a paradigm of strength and authority.

The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.

I don't think you have to struggle to make good art. I think you have to be passionate to make good art. You have to believe in what you're doing. It just comes from when you lie awake at night.

You can't put this possum in a cage

Throughout history, the technology always comes first. It's just technology for a while, until the day we artists inherit it.

The English kill their meat twice: once when they slaughter it and once when they cook it.

Theories of art carry the seeds of their own destruction.

I'm happy if my book makes you want to kiss your family... if we can reconcile with each other no matter where we are on the globe.