“Love builds a bridge. Hate builds a wall.”

“Beware the ideas of March... just one little letter changes the whole meaning. I love the way worms can do that.”

“The art of writing involves making as many cups of tea as you can in the time available for writing. Then adding extra time for writing...”

“Surely if Alternative Facts are untrue they should be called Ficts?”

“I tried to think outside the box but couldn't open the lid.”

“It's good to write badly. Things can only get better.”

“To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.”

“art is risk made visible”

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”

“The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.”

“But instead of spending our lives running towards our dreams, we are often running away from a fear of failure or a fear of criticism.”

“The ugliest government is the one which is spreading fear to its own people! The finest government is the one which encourages its own people to criticize the government harshly.”

“It's not objective. It's subjective. Katya hooks her bra behind her back. It's just what you think, not the truth.”

“Many of my colleagues operate from a mistaken notion that rational thought can come from only objective discourse, devoid of emotions. To me, speaking from the heart and with passion is not antagon...”

“In the history of the world, a whole story has never been told.”