For me a work of art must be an elevated interpretation of nature. The search for the ideal has been the purpose of my life. In landscape or seascape, I love above all the poetic motif.

​God is hardwired within the neural circuitry.

Life is a progress from want to want not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

I weep at everything.

The Church doesn't censor. It tries to guide its faithful through catechism.

Women truly are better than men. Otherwise, they'd be intolerable.

I'm a black writer from Mississippi. That's what I most consider myself.

Latin men love Latin women, it is part of the culture, we celebrate women in a very special way and I think that is present in my work. I do it by making them beautiful, sensual.

Matt Damon is a great actor, and he's from Boston, so we've got a few things in common. I've seen him throw a football, though. He definitely needs to work on that.

Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!

Achievement is by all accounts to a great extent a matter of clinging after others have given up.