Start small and with your own money..

They will love me for that which destroys me..

The image is an image..

Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work..

God hides things by putting them near us..

I often look for beauty in form and structure, and for ideas..

Since I went no grasse hath growne on my hele..

I didn't work on the killing floor. I worked in the section where you break the meat down and package it.

Things [only] exist once they are represented..

You can hold onto anything to make you carry on..

Take what you got and fly with it..

I've never been competitive with anybody but myself..

When you're the ingénue no one is really interested in you for that..

I am not an African. I am an American..

When you start writing, you have your characters on a metaphorical paved road, and as they go down it, all these other roads become available that th….

The day I was born, my house burnt down; the day I left home, the Twin Towers burnt down; and I lived in a jungle in India at 15..

Politics is a highly tribal business..

No one survives life..

Charge for something and make more than you spend..

If you push too much for somebody that everyone knows is your friend, and that you've worked with before, it can backfire..

Strength is for service, not status.