There's nothing an artist needs more - even more than excellent tools and stamina - than a deadline.

The intimacy. The deepest level of love. The knowledge that someone understands you, is rooting for you, is sharing your life.

Mama always said a good family has one heartbeat. No one knows you like the people you live with, and no one will take up your cause to the outside world quite like your blood relatives.

I'm very organized - and the best thing - when you love your work, you don't mind putting in 15 hour days. It's joyful.

If a man walks in beauty, he will create, and when he creates, he prospers.

A practical girl never pines; she takes action.

The good things that happen to us were meant to happen, and the bad things that happen are lessons meant to teach us to be better.