Humility is the daughter of truth.

Love ... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy and allows mutual discovery.

I never decided at all to be an artist; being an artist seems to have happened to me.

The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one's own intimate sensitivity.

No one questions the fact that verbal language has to be learned, but the commonplaceness of visual experience betrays art; people tend to assume that, because they can see, they can see art.

Artists have no choice but to express their lives.

Art comes into the highest part of the mind, that with which we can know the presence of God.

I've struggled all my life to get maximum meaning in the simplest possible form.

the knowledge of personal failure ... is the invaluable predicate of all honest compassion.

I have no home but me.

I have slowly come to realize that a family is composed of people who are teaching one another.

Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head.

Who would want to be the prey in a world full of hunters?~Disarming(Reign of Blood #2)

Now that we all agree contraception is a bad idea, let's take a harder look at electricity and soap.

It is poetry that changes everything.

I think any man over 250 pounds rollerblading is instant hilarity. There's nothing funnier than a giant, grown man rollerblading.

Look at what you've done, you're losing me is what you've won. Got me planning to go solo

Personally, I think wearing a baby chinchilla says, 'I'm ignorant.'

We sit here on the oasis of human consciousness and the verbal plane trying to talk about something that we just have to go and see and do and feel.

I was the little, funny one. I felt I was the child among grown women.

If your opponent wants to fight, the fight will be very interesting not just for the audience, but for myself.