Authority confined in you does not make you a leader. It is the authority created by you that makes you influence people with your purpose.

We’re freaks, the two of us, Franny and I. I’m a twenty-five-year-old freak and she’s a twenty-one-year-old freak, and both those bastards are responsible. I swear to you, I could murder them both without batting...

I think music influences fashion and has done so for generations.

When I started to draw, most of my influences were from other painters and illustrators, so I was drawing landscape at second hand, really. The trees were Rackham trees, or trees that I had seen...

I can’t tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don’t know what my influences are.

Having to amuse myself during those earlier years, I read voraciously and widely. Mythic matter and folklore made up much of that reading—retellings of the old stories (Mallory, White, Briggs), anecdotal collections and historical investigations...

I just have a lot off different influences.

Movies are the biggest export in the world, the biggest American export. It influences people all over the world.

he might have dealt tenderly at least with you. It is a hard, cruel nature which in youth can forget its first loves.

If you are what you eat, you are what you see and hear.

I’m generally quite happy until someone tells me I’m not. I don’t see how they know I’m not, but suddenly I feel less happy.

Evil influence is like a nicotine patch, you cannot help but absorb what sticks to you.

I’ve been very influenced by folklore, fairy tales, and folk ballads, so I love all the classic works based on these things — like George Macdonald’s 19th century fairy stories, the fairy poetry of W.B....

Who do you want to surround yourself with? People who can pull you up to their level of greatness? Or people who will happily pull you down to theirs?

He knows that if his father had been a different man, or his mother another women, he would have been the same. He would have lived all his years the same way. They played no...

I don’t have any influences, any heroes, it’s just me.

For there is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it.