The way you give love is the most profoundly human part of you. When people say it's ugly or a perversion or an abomination, they're attacking the center of your being.

I don't think you have to earn your income as an artist to be an artist. But if you are an artist, then art is what you do, whether or not you're paid for doing it; it is what you do, not what you are. I regard artist not as a description of temperament but as a category of profession, of vocation.

I tend to be sort of quiet and shy and awkward in social situations.

There's a way in which 'The Illusion' is a play about the theater.

I work best after the deadline has passed, when I'm in a panic.

You learn that existence is legible but that you have to have a critical mind if you're going to read it.

Real love isn't ever ambivalent.