"Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own."

"Life is an unwritten ledger; each passing sunrise offers a clean and waiting page. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery."

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

"Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity."

"It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth-century art. He's the modern Giotto, someone who shattered one kind of picture-making and invented a new one that the world followed."

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."

"I've been a fan of electronic music since the beginning."

"What is art but a way of seeing?"