We get into ruts when we run with the first idea that pops into our head, not the last one.

It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.

I've always had to keep the walls in place, and the only way to do that is to keep yourself constantly occupied... From the time I was 8 years old, until I went to college, I worked... There was no social life.

I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night.

Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.

when the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life.

If you're speaking of love, you really must include the element of uncertainty - and perhaps it's best approached as the art of constant maintenance.