"Now go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here. Make good art."

"The moment that you feel that, just possibly, you’re walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your mind and what exists on the inside, showing too much of yourself. That’s the moment you may be starting to get it right."

"Life is sometimes hard. Things go wrong, in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all the other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do. Make good art."

"If you’re making mistakes, it means you’re out there doing something. And the mistakes in themselves can be useful."

"The problems of failure are hard. The problems of success can be harder, because nobody warns you about them."

"Sometimes the way to do what you hope to do will be clear cut, and sometimes it will be almost impossible to decide whether or not you are doing the correct thing."

"The rules on what is possible and impossible in the arts were made by people who had not tested the bounds of the possible by going beyond them. And you can."

"You leave the same impression of something beautiful, but annihilating."

"I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me; all day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity."

"Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well."