The white May blossom swooned slowly into the open mouth of the grave.

We artists love to talk tough, but we're just as sentimental as everyone else when it comes down to it.

I like ideas. I find them more exciting than human behavior for the most part.

All a work of art can do is present the surface. I can't know the insides of people. I know very little about the inside of myself.

A man is not much if he can't depend on himself, and nothing if others can't depend on him.

All my life I have lied. I lied to escape, I lied to be loved, I lied for placement and power; I lied to lie. It was a way of living; lies are life's almost-anagram.

I've always been fascinated by physics and cosmology. It gets more and more scary the older you get.