I always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the future. When I went to college I became a history major because history is such a wonderful story of who we think we are. English is much more a story of who we really are.

We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.

Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.

The job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now has humans like himself; where once he had "he," he now has "she" and "they.

The unwillingness to try is worse than any failure.

Violence is like money in the bank; it's only helpful if you don't have to use it.

If you were a pure bolt of fire-cutting the skies I'd touch you-risking my life-not because I'm brave or strong, but because I'm fascinated by what the outcome would be.