Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel.

Art was always my main focus; I fell into writing by accident in the 1980s, writing magazine articles to pay for my studio. I have to put myself into the position of writing; sometimes it doesn't work, and sometimes it works great.

Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.