The first duty of a storyteller is to tell a story.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition: oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

"The photograph is just the starting point. The painting is something else entirely."

And when you do I want you to know this， remember this: there is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction. Now when you’re down there in the hole， it looks like failure. So this past year I had to spoon feed those words to myself.