The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds—the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall.

Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected.

We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.

A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.

Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.

Often Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

Painting does what we cannot do—it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.