I like the brooding man - a brooding man with a sense of humor.

My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.

What protects you in this world from sadness and from the loss of an ability to do something? ... Work and love.

Everyone I know is looking for solace, hope and a tasty snack.

A visit to a museum is a search for beauty, truth, and meaning in our lives. Go to museums as often as you can.

Flowers lead to books, which lead to thinking and not thinking and then more flowers and music, music. Then many more flowers and many more books.

if something does go wrong, here is my advice... KEEP CALM and CARRY ON.

Go out and walk. That is the glory of life.

In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.

Wonderful things happen when your brain is empty.

Washing dishes is the anecdote to confusion. I know that for a fact.

One can only describe the human but can never define it because humans are complex in their nature.

I'd never needed to know that my sister was a screamer. Never. That Mal was a screamer too just kind of confused me.

What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.

I stand for what I stand on.

As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the sacredness of human life.

Oh, how great the plan of our God!

Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain.

God's pleasure with me is grounded in the accomplishment of Christ, not my own accomplishment.

Are there times in our lives when we think we have been forsaken by God, or by our fellow men, or by our families? Those are moments when we have to turn to Christ and endure.

When I die, I will send down a shower of roses from the heavens,I will spend my heaven by doing good on earth.