The function of the overwhelming majority of your artwork is simply to teach you how to make the small fraction of your artwork that soars.

To require perfection is to invite paralysis.

The unfolding over time of a great idea is like the growth of a fractal crystal, allowing details and refinements to multiply endlessly — but only in ever-increasing scale.

For the artisan, craft is an end in itself. For you, the artist, craft is the vehicle for expressing your vision. Craft is the visible edge of art.

The greatest weight a bird has to drop before it can fly is fear.

My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things.

The kids today all seem to think they should be stars, but I wasn't brought up that way.

When you're onstage with an electric band going through a massive P.A. system, it's very artificial. You can't really hear your own voice as it comes out of your mouth.

Economics is a form of brain damage.

Books seek us out. They slip themselves into our hands just at the time we are ready for a new self-concept.

I don't really like to go out that much. But when I do, I go to the movies, just hang out with friends. I go on Skype and iChat and just chill.

Being serious is serious business in fiction. It's commercial or hoi polloi in fiction to be funny. It's too accessible to the great unwashed.

Yeah, I think on my resume it still says that - that I can juggle.

Health is wealth. Peace of mind is happiness. Yoga shows the way.