Quotes About Expression

To write is to educate and to entertain. Never to exclude.

No artist knows everything (yea, even this artist - piss-artist, con-artist, body-artist) but since every artist knows more than he can tell, all art is lying by omission.

There's an exclamation mark on this keyboard which shares tab-space with the number one. Shift+1=! It's insufficient. Radically inadequate as the denotation of my surprise. Even in bold. Even in underlined bold italic. I need something else, some punctuation mark not yet invented.

It was depressing how pornography had so emphatically demoted the vagina. The poor old vagina!

Fuck the miracle of life, where do I sign up for a hysterectomy?

Nothing is the whole story. The self's curse – and the writer's.

It's why people in sexual extremis say Oh, God . It's not a cry to the Divine, it's a recognition of their own divinity.

This writing malarkey should come with a health warning: MAY CAUSE INCESSANT DEVIATION FROM ORIGINAL INTENTION, AND DROWSINESS.

Words betrayed her: beautiful butterflies in her mind; dead moths when she opened her mouth for their release into the world.

Sadness is a very interesting idea, this idea of sadness being some kind of default setting that artists will go into. And then I started thinking about this idea of sadness and happiness, and the idea that sadness is very loud, and happiness is quiet.

My dad was quiet, angry, shut down. So my thing is: I express everything that's there. I want to get it all out.

And for some reason, when I'm sad, I do listen to Leonard Cohen, I do listen to Joni Mitchell. I do find myself going to the music that's actually reflecting my mood, as opposed to sticking on Motown, which might actually bring my mood up.

Believe in your character. Animate (or write) with sincerity.

Whenever you stand firmly in the midst of a hardship, holding and expressing the love that you are, you will witness illusions falling away. Through being the love that you are, you are empowered to transcend your sufferings.

Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.

Tears were a women's guns, to be shed when no other weapon would work.

Ask the way to the Ladies Room and you're "processed." Freedom of choice, my backside.

Art must be of the people if it is to be art at all," wrote Starr. "It is only when a man is doing work which he wishes done, and delights in doing, and which he is free to do as he likes, that his work becomes a language to him.

The worker in handicrafts will ask himself if there are not ways by which the sense of beauty could be extended from the somewhat narrow fields of art to the broader field of human relations. And he comes to see that to ask the question is in part to answer it.

Political correctness doesn't change us, it shuts us up.

A country is made not by policy alone, but by its music, its entertainment shows, all of it.

Music is the language of the heart, and conservatives always screw it up.

Money doesn't talk it screams

By the way, I'm not just one man with a chalkboard. I'm one man with four chalkboards.