Your passion for words & sentence structure should equal a painter's passion for color & brushstroke.

Like a true artist, never be satisfied that your writing cannot be improved.

There is a big difference between being lonely and being alone. I am alone when I write, but I am rarely lonely.

Trends come and go, and if you try to latch onto a trend it will likely be passé by the time you have completed your manuscript.

... we are only ever pretending to ourselves, never to other people ...

Dreams disdain fine lines and finishing touches on landscapes – they content themselves with thick but representative brushstrokes.

Guilt is a lazy feeling that takes no action

I can look at you and say, 'I'm gonna be the biggest artist in the world' because, at the end of the day, it's about the trust I have in God. He's already shown me that I'm gonna fulfil my destiny.

Free services like Wikipedia I don't think benefit anyone - they don't benefit the professional because they're not paid.

We need to get back to a level of social responsibility that we haven't seen for a long time.

In the spirit of Vivian Maier, who worked unaided by any publication or commercial shooting, I set up the Emerging Photographer Fund

Take care of yourself, and do unto others as you would have done to you.

We're not great friends, but I admire him. If he thinks he's the best player of the century, that's his problem.

Learn to use an axe, and respect it and you can't help but love it. But abuse one and it will wear your hands raw and open your foot like an overcooked sausage.