What's the worst thing about getting old? Getting old.

I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box.

How do you explain to yourself the casual manner in which you threw your life away?

Neither our own passing nor the passing of an era is a tragedy, no matter how much we would like to think it is.

I believe the causes that create them [serial killers] are theological in nature, rather than societal. I believe they make a conscious choice to erase God's thumbprint from their souls.

It has been my experience that most human stories are circular rather than linear. Regardless of the path we choose, we somehow end up where we commenced - in part, I suspect, because the child who lives in us goes along for the ride.

Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game. I don't know if you ever played competitive tennis, but you learn not to watch bad tennis; it messes up your game. Art's the same way.