The essence of communication is intention.
I hold a doctrine, to which I owe not much, indeed, but all the little I ever had, namely, that with ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.
The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, its energy - invincible determination - a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.
Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains
One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel.
I've signed a few Kaytoo photos and things and a couple of action figures [on ComicCon], but really it's not that many.
I look to everyday magic in art to remember how to live: how to estrange and vivify ordinary objects and beings. So little, really, is ordinary, but to remember this I need the brain chemical of painting and film and reading I had a thrummy doomed oracular feeling when I wrote blackened baby teeth into my little blind boy story: I saw teeth and in an instant they were becoming something else. They were buckshot. They were food. They were tiny flightless corvids.
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
It's very hard to be objective about something you're in, especially when you set it up against things that you experienced as a child.