Who can protect themselves from betrayal? The day your brother wakes up and plans to do you dirty, there's no defense against that.

...As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.

That's one of the first things that comes out of young people's mouths when they're in love. FOREVER. And that's cool, it's all good-until you get old enough to realize what forever is.

He understood it then. The potential, the utter, unbelievable freedom to be whoever existed underneath his skin.

Lopez made sandals out of one tire. He sold them at ten cents each, because people sometimes needed only one.

All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel... and that's what I've been doing all my life.

I think you always have to go as an artist with instinct, I really do.

You have to be careful not to use anything too colloquial or you date the book.

My parents were my heroes and my role models. So I thought long and hard over decisions that I would make because I never wanted to disappoint them and break their hearts.

No words suffice the secret soul to show, For truth denies all eloquence to woe.

I haven't played defense in a couple years.

How do we know that anything really exists, that anything is really the way it seems ot us through our senses?

The creatives are rarely professional and the professionals are rarely creative.