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“My soul is a canvas stretched across four wooden corners and tacked with copper nails that sink into the edges of timber like teeth. My art is nothing less than my salvation.”
Source : New York Arts Magazine, December 2008.
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“It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated. . . .”
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“I admire ventriloquists, because I can't do that. I mean, I might get mistaken for a ventriloquist dummy every now and then, but I can't do what they do.”
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“I really like grammar. And spelling. I was a spelling-bee kid. I'm hard-core about grammar.”
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“I've certainly had to bite my tongue on occasion and live to fight another day, so to speak, on certain things. But when you're new and fresh, you come out and think, 'I don't want to screw my chance up, so I'll go along with what everybody else does.'”
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“All the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws.”
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“There have been tons of politicians who were slow to accept equal rights when it meant changes in the established social order. Many eventually came around, admitted they were wrong, and were forgiven. But the ones who actively choose hate-mongering don't ever get a pass.”
Source : "Marriage Security and Insecurities". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. March 27, 2013. 
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“I would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema.”
Source : "The Killer Inside Me: can the violence be justified?" by Mark Kermode, Romola Garai, Anna Smith and Nicci Gerrard, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2010.
