Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.

After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn't be carousels if it weren't so.

The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.

We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.

The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.

The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.

Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.

What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.

Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.

Wit and puns aren't just décor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program.

Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.

The Creator favors the man who loves over the man who hates. If you teach hatred to your children, one day your child will have that hatred reflected back onto them, or onto you.

The lonesome and desperate kids out there, that pain will translate to magic perhaps.

so funny how i was so desperate triiying to reach to this point ...and now i have nothing to said im symple out of words, , ,

I believe that when you're in love you have to pour your heart and soul out to your partner... or why bother? So in that sense I'm an incurable romantic when it comes to men.

When I make a work, I often take it to the very edge of its collapse, and that's a very beautiful balance.

Lips, like roses dropping myrrh.

The Stone the Builders Rejected.

Life, alas, is very drear. Up with the glass! Down with the beer!

It's not only progressives who listen to progressive radio.

There's never been a better time to be an NBA owner