Quotes from Terry Gross

The problem is that those of us who are lucky enough to do work that we love are sometimes cursed with too damn much of it.

I've never liked euphemisms. I don't say "passed away." I say "dead.

If you concentrate, there is something that emanates from you, and that's what the great photographer photographs. Diana Vreeland says, "There is no beauty without emotion." I think that is the responsibility of a model.

Craft goes only so far in explaining how an artist uses his gift, and the gift itself is often inexplicable. Autobiography provides an alternate route—a seeming detour that may ultimately tell us something about an artist's sensibility and the experiences that shaped it.

I said, "No, you're physically challenged. You're breathing hard from climbing the stairs. I'm disabled.

The most feasible way of getting a woman to go to bed with you was to marry her.

invisible weaknesses and shortcomings. I do this because these are the characteristics that define us no less than our strengths. What we feel sets us apart from other people is often the thing that shapes us as individuals.

appetite of the blank page for ever more information, ever more data. An empty book is a greedy thing.

Of comfort no man speak. Let's talk of graves, of worms and epitaphs. Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes write sorrow on the bosom of the earth." I

If I'm anything, I'm not a singer, I'm a song stylist.

the words become inevitable through my connection with their meaning,

Having a kid, or supplying the sperm to fertilize an egg, and then not being around to offer support or guidance, doesn't give you the right to say, "I'm your father." You can say, "I'm the guy who made you," but that's about it.

Rapists who might've been convicted were free to assault other women.

Work can take on a new dimension if you know something about the artist.

I work in a medium where I get to be totally invisible and I get great pleasure from that, being a pretty self-conscious person.

I really believe people should be paid for the work that they do.

There should be a revenue stream that helps pay for the publication or for the work and helps pay the people who do it.

Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it's like to be human.

I mean, Dad's - you know, Dad's friendliest tone was a scream.

What puts someone on guard isn't necessarily the fear of being found out.

It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.