Fishing largely consists of not catching fish; failure is as much a part of the sport as knee injuries are of football.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.

Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre

A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.

One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs.

Why wait for a call when you have a command?

Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public

Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.

It is the nature of carnivores to get power and then, having disposed of their enemies, to deploy the emollient powers of Great Art to make themselves look like herbivores.

A library is more precious than a bank.

The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.

The Sovereign LORD is a mighty KING.

Velva’s face glowed in the streetlight. “Sir Sun, don’t you see? I am your violent violet. And you are mine.

Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice.

Being a chef is the best job in the world.

I go out to preach with two propositions in mind. First, every person ought to give his life to Christ. Second, whether or not anyone else gives him his life, I will give him mine.

I haven’t had Botox because my face is a bit lopsided and I depend on keeping everything animated so that people don’t notice.

For forty days he went out into the desert - and never shot anything [on Jesus]

Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.