“Have the vision to create something wonderful, something that has true value forever.”

“The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will.”

“He misses the feeling of creating something out of something. That’s right — something out of something. Because something out of nothing is when you make something up out of thin air, in which case it has no value. Anybody can do that. But something out of something means it was really there the whole time, inside you, and you discover it as part of something new, that’s never happened before.”

“Any artist who has ever created something worthwhile has done so by staying true to himself. You can't do it any other way.”

“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”

“They stay like this, in silence, both aware that they have created something together. Defiance. A pushing back of a darkness that no one has ever pushed at before. A wonderful, criminal liberty to love that which has been so viciously called unlovable.”