When you paint late at night, drinking beer or wine or both, you gotta be very careful to watch what you are doing.
My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two.
The best tip for writing is just to write; to sit down and write, to begin doing it and not to be scared by the blank page.
Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep.
We have each other, and our stories twist and mingle like the twisting currents of a river. We hold each other tight as we spin and lurch across our lives. There are moments of great joy and magic. The most astounding things can lie waiting as each day dawns, as each page turns.
Everybody's got the seam of goodness in them, Kit," said Grandpa. "Just a matter of whether it can be found and brought out into the light.
Sometimes we just have to accept there are things we can’t know. Why is your sister ill? Why did my father die?…Sometimes we think we should be able to know everything. But we can’t. we have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.
I've been grateful enough, smart enough to take the work with Ian McKellen in Gods And Monsters
Never start a conversation with a yawn
Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn't make abstract paintings
I am not responsible for the successful working of the machinery of society.