Art should be truth; and truth, unadorned, unsentimentalized, is beauty.

But Time is a great traitor who teaches us to accept loss.

The eye is complicated. It mixes the colors [it sees] for you ... The painter must unmix them and lay them on again shade by shade, and then the eye of the beholder takes over and mixes them again.

I was like many another who starts an intrigue timidly. Once into it, I had to go on, and therefore I had to harden my sensibilities.

And how to paint your lovely hands, fluttering over the silks like two dark birds?

Reading has always been in the chief joy, a never-ending topic of conversation, and often a lifesaver, in my family.

We feel most alive when we are closest to death.

Another day without no rain, is another day of sorrow.And if it doesn't rain today, I hope it rains tomorrow.

That Edison or Lincoln could have been Edison or Lincoln after four years of Harvard is improbable.

I'd love to do another television series. I really love the writing process, and as an actor I really like how much you get to examine in television.

I do think we need for a troop to be able to house his family. That's an important part of building morale in the military.

I love Drake -- he is very talented and I like his effortless attitude in terms of his style and music.

There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy.

If you can find an opening, you can probably find a way to float through it.