If people try to push me over into the category of not being a major success, I can think to myself, "Well, of course I'm not. I just started!"

Consuming is an endless treadmill.

Constant change is part of the American culture for most people.

The art world loves to throw things out and bring new things in. There's always this new circle of artists entering every five years.

Incorporating an awareness of style in the paintings gives them a kind of electricity and holds them together. It can plug you into the moment at which they were made.

I hate to be sporty and athletic. I wish that I could be, but I just wasn't born that way.

It was so close to October that Halloween was knocking at his heart.

We all have the potential to climb to greater heights through the infinite powers of dreams and actions.

Ordinary people know little of the time and effort it takes to learn to read. I have been eighty years at it and have not reached my goal.

One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short.

I would not want to live with a tube in my neck and not be able to move a finger. I wouldn't - that to me is not life.

Our attitude can turn our problems into blessings.

Art is the colors and textures of your imagination.

Not to intermarry racially is bad for the survival of the country.

There's always some promoter having an '80s night, saying, We'll supply the band. All you can drink.

I love reading; it's a great way to avoid writing.