“Nothing reaches inside you and grabs you by the guts the way fear does.”

“unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it”

“To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.”

“The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you…”

“Worry is fear in disguise. And fear will eat you from the inside out if you let it.”

“If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.”

“There were some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.”

“Sometimes you just have to reach out and grab what you want, even when they tell you not to. This is something that I've struggled with my whole life long.”

“It was beautiful in a harsh I'm-going-to-gut-you-like-a-fish kind of way.”

“By the way, don’t breathe on the upholstery or I may have to gut you. (Nick)”