Quotes About Expression

With any book, I try to find where the manner of the making of the book is appropriate to the matter of the subject.

If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.

Literature is a house with many mansions.

The film-school mantra is that if you don't tell your own stories, nobody will.

Over the years, El Perro del Mar became this artist that, every record that came out, I just loved it.

Maria Bamford is someone who's really inspired me in a big way.

Yet I was Marilyn Manson - times 10.

I really like Mark Mothersbaugh.

Having grown up quite shy and quiet, it's important that I mark out who I am in the world through my work.

My father was an entertainer. This is, of course, one of the most marked and enduring manifestations.

Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.

I have always believed in the marketplace of ideas.

Mars Volta was always about embracing what 'too much' was and the excess of it. I never thought there would be an audience for it.

I'd like to do something with Bruno Mars if we ever got the opportunity.

Do not all the achievements of a poet's predecessors and contemporaries rightfully belong to him? Why should he shrink from picking flowers where he finds them? Only by making the riches of the others our own do we bring anything great into being.

Tantrums are seldom about the thing they appear to be about.

I can't wear thethe ! I want my thtwipey oneth !

Be daffodils in June, you beastly things!

Anyway, Sophie's experience told her that tantrums are seldom about the thing they appear to be about.

I hate dialect. It gets in the way. If there is a need for dialect, you can render it quite easily by reproducing the rythm of that form of speech. Then you don't need to bother with silly spellings

If you stood up and told the truth in the wrong way, it was not true any longer, though it might be as powerful as ever.

My word, he's ugly!' Howl said. 'Chip off the old block.

We can't all be Mad Hatters," said Howl.

I like you, too! she blubbered at the top of her voice. I do, I do. You're a lovely Goon. You're my favourite Goon in all the world!