And several galleries - two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on consignment.

I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances.

I want to reach as many people as I can.

You know, you want everything you do, obviously, to be a success critically and commercially. But what you find out as you go along is that everything won't.

I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq. Those who want to come and help are welcome. Those who come to interfere and destroy are not.

Of course it's why you want to become a writer - because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.

Because the more you write the more you're aware of the weight of your tradition and the difficulties of the form and the more you have already done that you do not want to do again.

I tried to instill a different motivation, to give them the security and the conviction that they were doing something good, something necessary, something useful - if you want to use a grandiose expression, that they were doing something for peace.

I don't think people want to see someone buy a congressional race.

I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times.

I try to just communicate what I want done as clearly and simply as possible.

I forget very fast and want to record thus simply impress.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.

John Waters has certainly gotten to a place in his life where he doesn't do anything he doesn't want to do. He's always been that way, but at this point, he's greatly respected for it.