I think artists almost always end up turning to what's around them, what's in their environment or outside their window.

The paintings are like prayers, relating to wishing for something beyond everyday life.

Most of my painting is done sitting in a chair with a book. I'd say it's 80 per cent sitting and reading, 10 per cent eating and ten per cent painting.

I started to try to be a colorist, although secretly thinking of myself as somewhat of a black and whiteist.

Sometimes the painting starts to relate very directly to either sights seen or experiences felt, other times it just goes off on a tangent that you really can’t articulate.

I can say that paintings are prayers, they have to do with anything that makes you wish for more that what everyday life provides.

When life asks you a question, you learn. When you ask a question from life, you cry.

I will stand up and speak in my own voice and no man will ever silence me again.

I’ve got more faith in my shotgun than any man, that’s for sure.

Ask not that events should happen as you will but let your will be that events should happen as they do and you shall have peace.

I'm pretty smart with boys. I know how to handle them and I know what to do around them.

I think that fiction has this special responsibility or this special ability to help people to empathize, to demand of people that they understand other individuals and other people's experiences.

Our goal should be to understand our differences.

For they both were solitary, She on earth and he is heaven. And he wooed her with caressed, Wooed her with his smile of sunshine -Song of Hiawatha, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Many thrillers follow such reliable formulas that you can look at what's happening and guess how much longer a film has to run.

Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.