“That’s the thing about art. It really helps to be unhappy.”
“The point of art is not to give you what you already feel comfortable with; that’s reporting, not art, that TV, not art, that’s magaziney art, not art. Art gives you so personal an interpretation that it compels you to say, “This here is more real than what I know is really out there.”
“It was on such a night as this that the unhappy things came about.”
“Write something that’s worth fighting over. Because that’s how you change things. That’s how you create art.”
“That’s the funny thing about arriving somewhere, Vin,” he said with a wink. “Once you’re there, the only thing you can really do is leave again.”
“The thing about patience, I mean real patience, is that it is most needed when there is something you really want to see happen. That’s patience.”