A revolution cannot progress without the fuel of terror. With time that relationship inverts: the revolution presses forward for the sake of terror. Like an artist, the man creating terror should be detached, cold-blooded. He must keep in mind that the energy of the terror he releases can consume him.

Novels are food for the leftover hours of life, the in-between times, the moments of waiting.

We are all born artists. ... Almost everything kids do is art.

The artistic desire reveals itself in dark form - in karaoke bars [or] trolling on the Internet.

There are only two ways to be a god: through creation or murder.

I always take a close look at those who lose themselves in self portraits. They are solitary souls, prone to introspection, who have really grappled with their existence.

[We often] criticize the people on TV: 'He just can't act.' 'You call that singing?' ... We get jealous not because we're evil, but because we have little artists pent up inside us.