Abstract is not a style. I simply want to make a surface work. This is just a use of space and form: it's an ambivalence of forms and space.

Sunflowers are like people to me.

My paintings repeat a feeling about Lake Michigan, or water, or fields...it's more like a poem...and that's what I want to paint.

White... is death. It's hospitals. It's my terrible nurses. White is absolute horror. It is just the worst.

If you live your life with passion, every second will become an adventure.

If you don't love what you write, then nobody's going to enjoy reading it.

Evangelicals always assume that humor and faith are contradictory. It's OK to smile, to be nice, but not frivolous.

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

If I say that I love you but I do want personal time, or if I don't want to do PDA, it's not that I have something against you.

Every Marxist group that I've known has its theoreticians.

What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness.

Napoleon is always right.

The Democrats believe they need more of your money to spend because they can spend it better than you can. But you know, sometimes philosophers don't act.

Once a man sees what is possible, and makes just a few changes, a whole new world opens up where he finds opportunities that he couldn’t see before.