“Leadership is ultimately about creating a way for people to contribute to making something extraordinary happen.”

Know what you value, be willing to take a risk, and lead from the heart – lead from what you believe in.

There are looks that I see on other people that I think would look horrible on me, but I think if somebody has the courage to be really daring and try something outlandish, then more power to them. That’s just encouraging and inspiring.

I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.

Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist’s way of scribbling “Kilroy was here” on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.

What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?

I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself… something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.

I don’t set out to write something. I more just write, and later on, I discover what it’s about.