People are judged continuously everywhere on the most intimate level by the prices on their head. Most of them accept the judgment. It's very hard to have self-respect, or to maintain a state of creativity under these conditions. — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
There are writers I know and respect who are very good about what's outside, and not too hot about what's inside. — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
“He became a surgeon because he was afraid of knives. He got married because he was afraid of women. He had a child because… — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
Leave people alone when they tell you to leave them alone. If they mean it, they need it. — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
All paths cause pain, so to chose the safe over the audacious will not give you less pain, only less beauty. — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
That's what America's all about, man, if it's about anything. You can choose your own name. — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
“In joy, our choices may appear to be few, but one's responses are anything but confined, they're inspired, expanded.” — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
We have to be realistic about the brutal demands a money culture puts on the psyche, and there is a great cost to this… — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
The world of psychology and the world of normal life tends to look down on obsession. It's not good for you, and certainly not… — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
Stop tolerating in your leaders what you would not tolerate in your friends. — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
An artist doesn't depend upon inspiration or have to have it. An artist doesn't depend on mood, certainly not if you're earning your living… — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
I never get my creativity flowing. I'm a pro, this is how I earn my living. If it don't flow, I don't eat. — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
I require and enforce as non-interrupted a state of living as you can get in America right now without going off to live by… — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
