Give the public the 'image' of what it thinks it ought to be, or what television commercials or glossy magazine ads have convinced us we ought to be, and we will buy more of the product, become closer to the image, and further from reality.

Artists of all disciplines must be willing to go into the dark, let go control, be surprised.

A life lived in chaos is an impossibility.

Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.

A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in our dreams, or as we turn a corner, and suddenly there is a strange, sweet familiarity that vanishes almost as soon as it comes...