You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.

What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends.

The moment you start thinking it's hopeless, then it is. [But], if you think it's gonna get better, it really does. Life is a test.

I want to be necessary and do good works. I ain't here to waste nobody's time, because I don't want you to waste mine.

I just don't think it's very dignified to ask people to like you. You can just wind up being somebody's ottoman.

Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.

That's what I've been trying to strive for - to draw a clear picture, to open up a new dimension.