What is to give light must endure burning.
There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on.
You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.
Give light and people will find the way.
I think we're very much in a mystery here in this life and that artists try to pierce the mystery with their art.
One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.
Without music and creativity, I'd need other forms of therapy. But for me, the life process is the process of healing yourself. 'Break the Night' is about offering hope to people, about breaking through the darkness.
Truth, like a torch, the more it's shook it shines.
Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
I don't really have a metaphor for how I write, but it kinda feels like chipping away at a big dark object that I can't really see.
Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.
It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.
Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.
If there is any place on earth that needs light, it is certainly New York.
