The musty smell, the bugs, the lonliness, this room, which is part of the street outside-this is all I want from life.
One of the biggest gifts that you can give your daughter is to show her that you love what you do.
Surround yourself with people smarter than you.
Intuition is a powerful business tool. Use it.
I identify who I am by who I am.
I had many mentors, and they didn't know it.
The compelling thing about making art—or making anything, I suppose—is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a thing, a substance in a world of substances. Circe, Nimbue, Artemis, Athena, all the old sorceresses: they must have known the feeling as they transformed mere men into fabulous creatures, stole the secrets of the magicians, disposed armies: ah, look, there it is, the new thing. Call it a swine, a war, a laurel tree. Call it art.
I have lived a carnal life. My view of life is 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!' I don't have to go through the thing of paying for it in the next life. I know I'm screwed in the next life.
People forget facts, but they remember stories.
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size.