"The only way artists can do things is to do it for themselves. Trying to second guess what the public wants or likes is kind of a fool's game."

“Wherever public worship has been established and regularly aintained, idolatry has vanished from the face of the earth. There is not now a temple to a heathen god where the word of God is read.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 34, 1895.

“If clearness about things produces a fundamental despair, a fundamental despair in turn produces a remarkable clearness or even playfulness about ordinary matters.”

“I don't judge in my books. I don't have to have the antagonist get shot or the protagonist win. It's just how it comes out. I'm just telling a story.”

“Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.”

“When you live as a friend of the now, many changes come into your life.”

“What was your greatest challenge? Staying alive as a business, staying ahead of the game, and melding my business life with my personal life.”

“I'll have a sentence in my head that's kind of beautiful and interesting, but I'm not sure why or where it's coming from. So it's kind of funny, because when people point out patterns or themes, it's the exact opposite of my film school experience.”

Source : "Animator Don Hertzfeldt, Picturing Matchstick Men and You". Interview with Luke Y.Thompson, www.therobotsvoice.com. April 24, 2015.

“So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.”