We are all born artists. ... Almost everything kids do is art.

[We often] criticize the people on TV: 'He just can't act.' 'You call that singing?' ... We get jealous not because we're evil, but because we have little artists pent up inside us.

The magic question is, 'What for?' But art is not for anything. Art is the ultimate goal.

A novel, basically, is writing one sentence — then, without violating the scope of the first one, writing the next sentence.

I always take a close look at those who lose themselves in self portraits. They are solitary souls, prone to introspection, who have really grappled with their existence.

When the moon covers the sun, we have a solar eclipse. What do you call it when birds do that?

Novels are food for the leftover hours of life, the in-between times, the moments of waiting.

And still everything’s the same, even though I did my best to get as far away as I could.

The artistic desire reveals itself in dark form - in karaoke bars [or] trolling on the Internet.

Dont be a fish; be a frog. Swim in the water and jump when you hit ground.

Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic.

Fireworks can make us both happy and sad. It just depends if we are talking about fireworks in the sky or fireworks with another.

I lie without a mask, thus I am an honest man.

You don’t have the body you don’t have a debt. Ask for a loan.

Now peculiar scraps of knowledge were stuck to him like lint from all his jobs.

I want to be remembered as a guy who tried his best and did his best

Any area of my life for which I have no hope is under the influence of a lie.

I walk into a kids' store, and it's amazing, the types of instruments - little squeaky things, rattling things, spinning tops.

A Killer Brand exists when an entity derives a disproportionate amount of success in its category because of a compelling and differentiated expectation that comes to be associated with its name.

My feeling has always been if you entertain people, they give you permission to do more on a thematic or character level.

I reported everything I was given, even if I didn't keep - I did not keep the vast majority of it.