"I think I view myself primarily as a fiction writer. Poetry is more of a "hobby," a time of rest from the hard work of writing fiction."

“We have one of our greatest human experiences when we get an active idea working in our minds.”

“Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.”

Source : "Dictionary of Quotations (Classical)" edited by Thomas Benfield Harbottle, (p. 495), 1906.

“State what you actually see in someone's work first: objects/space/color/directional flow - then content. Interpret.”

“Capitalism has proven to be a far more terrible system than Marx could ever bring himself to imagine. Those who are so deluded as to find something good in it, or even feel loyalty toward it, are its most pitiful victims.”

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“My mind is huge with little stories that I never told you.”

“I look at other filmmakers and see skills in them that I wish I had but I know that I don't. I feel like I have to work really hard to keep myself afloat, doing what I do. But I find it pleasurable.”

“Not believing has a sickness which is believing a little.”

“Love yourself. Respect yourself. Never sell yourself short. Believe in yourself regardless of what people think. You can accomplish anything, absolutely anything, if you set your mind to it.”