To call the police is a really big deal because you don't snitch - that's the culture you grow up in.

I loved to write; in my late teens I had a 'zine. But it wasn't until I went back to school, later on in my 20s, that I actually saw that I had writing talent.

Why don't you just ease up a little bit, just be professional. Maybe you're over-investing - maybe you're caring a little too much.

In terms of having to uphold something, I don't need any added pressure. I need to be free in the work.

My own perception of cops was that they came into your neighborhood, they roughed up people that you loved for no reason and took them away. As a child you saw that.

We all move on from history to chance, sorrow to sorrow, hope to hope, joy to joy. Read the book of fiction on the theme. its title is FROM HISTORY TO CHANCE

Be wise enough to forgive

Crime isn't pretty, only fashionably dressed.

The present is passed over in the race for the future; the here is neglected in favor of the there. Enjoy the moment, even if it means merely a walk in the country.

To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.

How smart does a chimpanzee have to be before killing him constitutes murder?

Everyones got dreams, find the courage to follow your own.

Never let making a profit stand in the way of doing the right thing.

It's the subject matter that counts. I'm interested in revealing the subject in a new way to intensify it. A photo is able to capture a moment that people can't always see.

Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruistic and kind.