The key thing is managed awareness of your role in the world and history. Think too much and you know you are nothing. Think just enough and you know you are small, but important to some. That's the best you can do.

He must trust, and he must have faith. And so he builds, because what is building, and rebuilding and rebuilding again, but an act of faith?

If your hand doesn't work for it, your heart doesn't feel sorry for it.

Good artists exist in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent.

I worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book.

A combination of acting, lying, begging, and cheating.