That’s life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like it’s nothing. If you ask me I don’t think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. That’s enough.

I can't imagine anybody who ends up being an artist who didn't pass through a time of geekiness.

She smelled like herself, like the wind through a tree.

Honestly, connecting once at the deepest level with someone, you know, once you've done that, even if your life goes to hell, man, it was really worth living.

As an artist you're on a journey of discovery and sometimes that journey takes a long time, doesn't subscribe to [a] train schedule, to the punch-clock. And I need to read a lot to make my pages happen.

Nobody likes children, your mother assured you. That doesn't mean you don't have them.

Character is the plot in many ways