“We're all going about trying to make beauty in the world and trying to...” — Rebecca Makkai Quote

We're all going about trying to make beauty in the world and trying to make order out of chaos. And that's what art is.

I taught myself to read when I was three by comparing the letters in my Mother Goose book with the rhymes I had memorised.

I grew up writing. It was very natural in my household. My father was a poet, and his mother had been a novelist back in Hungary. I don't think I really thought about it being my career until high school, which is still pretty early, but it was a while there of just assuming this was something everyone did all day long.

Writing a short story is like painting a picture on the head of a pin. And just getting everything to fit is - sometimes seems impossible. Writing a novel, though, is - has its own challenges of scope. And I think of that as painting a mural, where the challenge is that if you are close enough to work on it, you're too close to see the whole thing.

Part of what Faith No More shows are is chaos and unpredictability.

At home I've got 1,500 cook books and the spines have all gone, the pages are all torn - it's chaos.

My only goal ever in a fight was to go in there and create chaos. Now, I want to control the chaos that hate's created. I want to fight in the right spots.

It was always chaos with Mom, Dad, uncles, you know; we all lived in the same building. Dinner parties with 25 people every night.

Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.