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.

Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age.

You have a coyote inside you and you have to get it out

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

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.

I started reading when I was about three, a little over three.

I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do.