If books can transform, those have to be conscientious.

Give love, take pride

Well-developed characters will ruin your writing plans every time. You may think you know where you're going with a story, but they have other ideas.

But I’d rather look back and regret something I did when I was young and crazy, than look back and regret something I never had the courage to do, and realize it’s too late.

Intemperance and intolerance serve no one, and hatred guarantees failure.

Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.

I believe strongly that in order to compete against VOD, the Internet - any competition - exhibition has to achieve higher standards, more comfort in everything.

Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only authentic folk art of the twentieth century.

All prayers are answered. We need to distinguish between a prayer unanswered, and one not answered how or when we would like it to be.

When I found out I was pregnant, my mother said, 'Dont separate your life, the life that youre going to make with this child, from the things that you are and what you want to do.'

If guns cause crime, all of mine are defective.