I collected pictures and I drew pictures and I looked at the pictures by myself. And because no one else ever saw them, the pictures were perfect and true. They were alive.

I know of witches who whistle at different pitches, calling things that don't have names.

She looked at the last thing she had written and she felt calm. Then she crossed the words out vehemently, scribbling until even the shape of the sentence was destroyed.

But then, maybe “I don’t believe in you” is the cruelest way to kill a monster.

You've seen one of the our gigs you've seen 'em all. But if you're into the music, you'll know that we played better the night before or we can play better.

After grief for sin there should be joy for forgiveness.

I could weep for a river-valley, and I have. But for a country? Oh man, I don't know.

Climate change is one of the issues I worry most about because its impacts are enormous. But they're gradual, they're not immediate.

The more failure you can accept, the greater your chance of success.

I like visual layers, stylistically, that's something I enjoy and seek to do.

The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.

Nothing is of greater importance in time of war than in knowing how to make the best use of a fair opportunity when it is offered.

Your heart is mine; there I reign. I am content.

Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none. This above all: to thine own self be true. No legacy is so rich as honesty. Brevity is the soul of wit