Lecturing Brooks was as useful as lecturing a cat.

Sometimes people graduate but they don't leave. They hang around for years, for no reason. I would think of ghosts like that, I decided.

WORTH IT and perfect are different things. No one’s perfect, yet in romance, everyone becomes WORTH IT. And that’s the trick.

Writing is one of the few careers for which you essentially train yourself, the other two major ones being juggling and pickpocketing.

I'm Keith," he said, "and you're . . . clearly mad, but what's your name?

I knew it was beautiful, but knowing something is beautiful and caring about it are two very different things, and I didn't care.

Sometimes artist like to catch themselves looking out, let the world see them for once. It's a signature. This one is a very bold one. But this is also a witnessing. We want to remember, and we want to be remembered. That's why we paint.