The shape of my work's development becomes a little clearer every time I am forced to articulate it.

Love ... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy and allows mutual discovery.

I never decided at all to be an artist; being an artist seems to have happened to me.

The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one's own intimate sensitivity.

No one questions the fact that verbal language has to be learned, but the commonplaceness of visual experience betrays art; people tend to assume that, because they can see, they can see art.

Artists have no choice but to express their lives.

Art comes into the highest part of the mind, that with which we can know the presence of God.

I've struggled all my life to get maximum meaning in the simplest possible form.

the knowledge of personal failure ... is the invaluable predicate of all honest compassion.

I have no home but me.

I have slowly come to realize that a family is composed of people who are teaching one another.

The world was healing itself.

All truly great art is propaganda.

Don't wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.

I don't have high expectations anymore. Maybe they've just been beaten out of me.

People have an infinite attention span if you are entertaining them.

Become the person who would attract the results you seek.

Sometimes that's a year, sometimes it's 18 months, where all I'm doing is taking notes. I'm reconstructing the story from the back to the front so that I know where the front is.

Satyagraha as conceived by me is a science in the making.

Why do scuba divers fall backwards off a boat? Because if they fell forwards they'd still be in the boat.

[Taboo] has been exactly the same as working with the BBC in that creatively they do that precious thing which is to only make a comment when a comment needs to be made.