What if your art could provide everything you ever needed or wanted in life?

If you're alive, you're creative.

Take yourself out of the center of other people's universe - it will free you up and let the universe turn more easily.

We are always - always- in choice.

Don't say you're a writer if you're not writing. Even if you're writing, don't call yourself a writer. Say instead, 'I write.' It's the verb that's important, not the noun.

Don't separate 'real' life from 'creative' life.

What few rules appear to be in place are all made up.

We can either own our circumstances and be creative in them, or we can throw up our hands and say, I cannot be held accountable because the conditions are not ideal.

When the mouse laughs at the cat there's a hole nearby.

In the year 1657 I discovered very small living creatures in rain water.

The source of the terror in Lebanon as in Iraq is to be found in the Koran and in the despotisms of the Arab Middle East.

In a strange city, I connect through food and fantasy.

If I work with a bad actor, my reaction is to immediately become worse than they are.

True independence means being free from the domination of your own internal automatic behaviors, not doing what you feel like when the urge strikes.

Around my own friends, I like to mess around.

They thought that I was a man with reasonable judgment, so I was never under pressure from my parents; I could do whatever I wanted. I never had a negative word from them, nothing whatsoever.

Test every work of intellect or faith and everything that your own hands have wrought.

If the past sits in judgment on the present, the future will be lost.