“I really dislike waking up all fired up and dealing with stupidity.”

“Pride is a great hindrance to progress.”

“I'm not really heaven material anyway, chickie babe. Sign me up for your team.”

“I'm so involved in the process that sometimes at the end of a day, I can look at the piece on my desk and really wonder how it got there. At other times, I really have to struggle with a piece to turn it into what I had in mind. Sometimes, I give up and leave it half finished to work on something else. Then in a few days, when I come back to it, I can see what it wants to be... which sometimes is not at all what I had in mind. When I just let that happen, things seem to go more smoothly.”

“He doesn't seem to mind at all that he's stupid about math.”

“(T)he world is broken up into pieces, and...it's up to everyone to help put it all back together. It's about recognizing the spark of life in everyone and everything, and gluing those shards back together.”

“Do you ever think if people heard our conversations they'd lock us up?"All the time.”