He wrote very well in those days, as it happens, much better than he does now. He had absolute convictions, and style is nothing more than the absolute conviction of possessing a style.

You can never make someone like something they don't like, but you can always help them to better understand it.

Your passion is measured by the difference between your willingness to take actions and your desire to quit. When your desire to quit outweighs your willingness to persist, you are ripe for failure!

I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe.

In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.

Obedience sets a woman apart, fills her with life, permits her to be God-blessed.

The world has become too full of many things, an over furnished room.

I can't bear to finish things, beyond a certain point they get heavy. There's something so dead about a finished painting.

I think we're in a time and place, the last 20 plus years, and certainly now, it's only more so, where it's just about us creating a body of work. Creating hopefully our own scene.

No one should expect that any logical argument or any experience could ever shake the almost religious fervor of those who believe in salvation through spending and credit expansion.

He wanted to work in Hot Woman Valhalla until he died of testosterone poisoning. (Nick)