Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.

Please, don't go. It's lonely. There's a hole in my head as big as the world and it's so very lonely.

It is not the job of artists to give the audience what the audience want. If the audience knew what they needed, then they wouldn’t be the audience. They would be the artist. It is the job of artists to give the audience what they need

The multiplying villainies of nature do swarm upon him... [from Macbeth]

For me, there is very little difference between magic and art. To me, the ultimate act of magic is to create something from nothing: It's like when the stage magician pulls the rabbit from the hat.

To me, all creativity is magic. Ideas start out in the empty void of your head - and they end up as a material thing, like a book you can hold in your hand. That is the magical process. It's an alchemical thing. Yes, we do get the gold out of it but that's not the most important thing. It's the work itself.

There's no such thing as quitting. Just sometimes there's a longer pause between relapses.