From personal adversity comes great art

What is this place?’‘Heaven.’ She laughed, ‘with better drinks!

She wasn’t sure if she even needed him anymore and the thought made her sad. In consolation, she offered him a kind smile and reached for his dependable hand.

Are you in love with him?’She kept her lips tightly closed as if holding something back.‘Are you in love with me?’She tried to answer but nothing came out. She lowered her eyes to the floor.

In front of him stood the woman of his dreams, giving him one last chance to kiss her.Reason didn’t stand a chance.

It has been utterly exhausting to love you.

She felt damned. As though she were marching to her death. She felt like had been sentenced. And yet she felt eerily free.

Their conversation was like root canal without anaesthesia.

Seeing him again had been a gut punch.

You want me to paint you?’ Genna spoke up raising an eyebrow of displeasure.‘All of me.’ James bowed his head to Genevieve and whispered the words slowly.

He hadn’t saved her. He hadn’t even bothered trying.

Art is the overflow of emotion into action.

If you can work anywhere, anytime, then pretty soon you're working everywhere all the time.

Men expect too much do too little.

On immigration, Trump needs an articulate policy that aims to secure the border and keep out illegals while letting in skilled legal workers.

True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.

I feel very lucky because of my parents and then my education, the opportunities that I've had, so I would like to continue working to improve lives for others.

Words can't say this. The one word love means too little for what it is. It means everything and that is still not enough.

The only work of art which succeeds is that which fails.

I could honor Carmen Electra. I think she's beautiful.

Politicians who wear little tennis socks with the balls at the back should not be taken seriously.