“Music is like poetry, It can stop you thinking. But it can also open you up.”

“People write for ego gratification, not money.”

“Aristotle didn't have a problem with abortion," she says. "Oh, well, good, that's a comfort," I say.”

“But in this case, he continues, tracing the line of the plasterwork with one finger, I feel that there is one cliche that sums up my position so admirably that it would be pure egotism to attempt a...”

“It's a nebulous thing, but it is my beliefmy experience alsothat women do not have the need to collect that men have.”

“We're high on the adrenaline of feeling, even though we know it's fleeting and evanescence. And we're getting worse -- checking texts and emails and Facebook every five minutes, always searching fo...”

“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.”

“I love and care for everyone because I know the pain of being unloved and uncared.”

“I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.”

“Do only work that matters, and you will end up pleasing those who are important enough to care about it.”