A veteran artist counsels a less experienced one to start a painting using colors in the middle range so that the painter can move to more extreme colors as the work progresses.

Those for whom things came easily usually made less of an effort, not more.

We who are residing in a foreign country, away from the immediate scene of action, perhaps can feel more deeply than those at home the evil effects of the present distracted condition of our country.

There was no opiate like a French pillow.

To be unable to read was the ultimate measure of wretchedness.

On a medical school professor noted for slowly, carefully interviewing the patient: "He taught the love of truth.

Talk helps shape one's thoughts.

In America, applause is won only by physical exertion.

Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere. Anyone who lives inside the US can never be considered an outsider anywhere in the country

You’re not kissing my wife tonight.

The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great.

I think at the prospect of bringing children into the world, your mortality comes very much to the forefront, absolutely.

It is very hard to stay alive just for your own sake. It is very hard to stare into day after day without another familiar face staring back. It turns your heart into a purposeless muscle.

I try to just focus on the love and my family. That's what I'm focussed on every single day.

Are you Lewis Carroll?" Redd asked him.

But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you?

Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.

We are an army of dreamers, and that's why we're invincible.