Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires.

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

As you become acquainted with a character you are creating, you add parts of yourself that are pertinent to that character.

There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think.

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.

Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.

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