Art should reveal the unknown, to those who lack the experience of seeing it.

I am defined by my will to survive, not by intelligence or cunning or money or good looks. The Creator didn't see her way clear to give me those things, instead she gave me a strong will.

Culture is not race and race is not culture.

For a moment at least, be a smile on someone else’s face.

Childbirth is nothing. Death is mighty. The 0 to our 1. There is nothing in the world like it. But there is nothing in it that is not like the world.

My mom modeled and made clothes, so I always had such an appreciation for design.

Keep your heart with all diligence and God will take care of the universe.

Music says so much. Really specific but those are also real tonal things as well.

Teaching writing puts you on the point of a pin in terms of what you want your own writing to be.

Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.

I first decided that I wanted to act when I was 9. And I was at a very bizarre prep school at the time, to say high Anglo-Catholic would be a real English understatement.

These days she simply did the best job she could, accepting the good with the bad.

The meekest of animals will fight bravely when it is backed against a wall, for it has nothing left to lose. A poor man is more deadly than a rich man because he puts less value on his own life.