Love may be harder to find in some people, but when they do love you know it must be something marvelous.

As Aristotle said, 'Excellence is a habit.' I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has completed a work which he himself finds undeniably awe-inspiring. He only wants to relax until he's ready to renew such a feeling all over again because to him, all else has become absolutely trivial.

Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.

In the age of technology there is constant access to vast amounts of information. The basket overflows; people get overwhelmed; the eye of the storm is not so much what goes on in the world, it is the confusion of how to think, feel, digest, and react to what goes on.

I find it a challenge to cooperate in a society where it's considered moral to critique a résumé yet immoral to critique morality.

There are two circumstances that lead to arrogance: one is when you're wrong and you can't face it; the other is when you're right and nobody else can face it.

I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.