To make something look real and alive, nothing can be symmetrical because nothing in real life is symmetrical. You have to make it look organic.

It's fun to pretend you're good at something you know you wouldn't be good at in real life.

I'll stand next to that fountain and wait until the Official find me. And when she does and asks me what I'm doing, I'll tell her and everyone else that I know: t hey are giving us pieces of a real life instead of the whole thing. And I'll tell her that I don't want my life to be samples and scraps. A taste of everything but a meal of nothing.

Open a magazine from the 1930s and '40s and look at the illustrations in it. There's nobody alive that could touch the way they could draw back then.

For axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses.

There's nothing half so real in life as the things you've done... inexorably, unalterably done.