"At that time, I was still in an experimental stage, trying to blend Western drawing techniques and Chinese brushwork together. It was harder for me back then... But that piece is special and important, because it represents vigilance and innocence; the kind of precious innocence only present at the beginning of a new artistic exploration."

“The sweetness that all longed for night and day. Some tragedy might be idly guessed at-loss or illness. She had the luminosity of those about to die.”

“For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock.”

“One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the principle of irregularity.”

“If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.”

“You have to know the human condition to get that many people to all respond at the same time to the same subject. You gotta understand humanity in order to portray it.”

Source : Source: aalbc.com

“Even though Xavier was only human, it seemed he could protect me from anything and everything. I wouldn't have been worried if a fire-breathing dragon had torn of the roof, because I knew that Xavier was there. I wondered fleetingly if I was expecting to much og him, but dismissed the idea.”

Source : Alexandra Adornetto (2010). “Halo”, p.426, Macmillan

“Tears and sorrows and losses are a part of what must be experienced in this present state of life: some for our manifest good, and ail, therefore, it is trusted, for our good concealed;--for our final and greatest good.”

“It's in our own lives, every single day, whether we recognize it as funny at the moment or not.”

Source : "Sean Astin Talks Mom's Night Out, Being in a Good, Clean Comedy, Guillermo Del Toro's the Strain, Being Game for a Goonies Sequel, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 8, 2014.