I'm not so interested in the effort that it takes to have a self-promotional outlook. I believe in being quiet and making my work and just trying to make discoveries and let the painting evolve.

I think that is the role of the artist in society - the cultural role of the artist is to perform a healing function.

It's hard to fathom the psychology of the economics of art. I don't quite understand it, and I don't necessarily want to understand it.

Over time, even the tiniest meaningful actions add up, each one bringing you closer to a life that is truer to your dreams and free of regret.

Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.

Perseverance is not a long race it is many short races one after the other.

Baseball begins in the spring, the season of new life. Football begins in the fall, when everything's dying.

There are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.

I don't want my readers slowed down by long passages of narrative.

The individual man is transitory, but the pulse of life and of growth goes on after he is gone, buried under a wreath of magnolia leaves.

I've been followed home late at night. I've been shot at on the highway.

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Believe God's love and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your rock is Christ, and it is not the rock that ebbs and flows but the sea.