This story in my head is too hot to touch. I grabbed it anyway.

Never feel like you need to visit him, ever?" "I see him every morning in the mirror. I think of him as the ghost version of me. And who needs to visit your own ghost?

You start wondering if you deserved those high reviews on your books or if people just pitied you and went “Poor sod. Here’s a five star review so you don’t hang yourself in the garage.

Right words make all of us feel falsely important. Right action keeps all of us forever beginners.

Rule #1: Writing is for the creative brain. Editing is for the critical brain. Separate them appropriately.

That's what being a front man is all about - the idea of having something supple underneath you, that machine that roars and can turn on a dime.

I do find the values in A Christmas Carol significant. It is important not to be mean and stingy and not to give up love for money.

As long as you're eating well and moving your body every day, age is just a state of mind

It was official. I now wanted to murder a ghost, a notion I'd discarded as unlikely only twenty minutes before. (Cat)

I don't think money can help you become a better painter, for sure. You can have all the studios you want; it won't help you make a better painting.

Dream big - dream very big. Work hard - work very hard. And after you've done all you can, you stand, wait and fully surrender.

Failures and setbacks are a part of this experience, and it will remain in you as wisdom.