I don't want it all to be pretty - it's a combination of loss and gain. Things are born, live and hang in limbo. That's what life's about.

There's such a freedom about being an artist... You're not accountable - you're this renegade thing.

You make an open-ended proposition and the audience completes it somehow. That’s what you hope an artwork to be-a constantly living thing.

The main trouble with this civilized world isn't that we adventure too much, but that we fail to adventure enough.

There's only a certain amount of works you can make, so you have to make only the ones you really want to make. It's all about trying to be as productive as possible.

... rarely if ever does one feel sure one knows enough to go ahead with much of anything new. You bank on faith and courage and the ability to learn on the job.

If I'm not doing the work I want, I usually suffer a psychological allergic reaction and get ill. It niggles when things get out of my control.

New York, forever the port of em- and de-barkation en route to Adventure.

not only have children most certainly a right to their own ambitions, but their own lack of ambitions.

There's something about being in the country that makes you stick out like a sore thumb ? you're an anomaly. But in London there's always someone wilder and woollier.

Cry down materialism all you will, surely one of the thoroughly satisfactory sensations of this world is to feel financially independent.

Praying leads to the prosperity of the soul

Like seduction, the Priestess took poisoning to an art form.

She'd been taking care of others for so long that she scarcely recognized herself when she looked in the mirror.

Lieutenant Mortas is the black sheep of the family--I thought you knew that.

Had she any respect for him at all, his words would've affected her. But no value accompanies comments spewed from the mouth of a brute.

I love women more on canvas than real life, for they seldom change on canvas!

I knew in my heart that I wasn't cool, but I figured I could at least be cool by association.

So that godly sorrow may be discerned by this train of graces wherewith it is accompanied, that worldly sorrow wants, at least in the truth of them, though it may have some shadows of them.

Luck is an accident that happens to the competent.

Day by day we are building for eternity ... Every gentle word, every generous thought, every unselfish deed will become a pillar of eternal beauty in the life to come.