The Only Thing An Artist Has To

I Looked At Lucas With The Pang That A Parent Feels When He Knows His Child Will Be Hurt And That It's No One's Fault And That To Try To Preempt The Rites Of Passage Is An Act Of Contempt For The Child's Courage.

Write For The Love Of Your Art. Someplace Down The Road, The Money, The Fame, They'll Come, But By That Time You Won't Be Thinking In Terms Of Money Or Fame.

Age Is A Clever Thief. It Takes A Little From You Each Day, So You're Not Aware Of Your Loss Until It'd Irreversible.

We Decry Violence All The Time In This Country, But Look At Our History. We Were Born In A Violent Revolution, And We've Been In Wars Ever Since. We're Not A Pacific People.

Neither Our Own Passing Nor The Passing Of An Era Is A Tragedy, No Matter How Much We Would Like To Think It Is.