If silicon had been a gas I should have been a major-general.

The world is divided into two classes - invalids and nurses.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

We look at a painting to know the painter; it's his company we are after, not his skill.

If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.

As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound or of color.

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.

I always ask at once, 'Do you drink?' and if she says 'No,' I bow politely and say I am sorry but I fear she will not suit. All good cooks drink.

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

For art and joy go together, with bold openness, and high head, and ready hand - fearing naught and dreading no exposure.

Mauve is just pink trying to be purple.

If life is a song, you must be the superb lyrics to a sweet melody.

By keeping my hand in that, it's the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing and working with patients.

I like the hot-cold, the sugar-salt, being able to play over-the-top and dramatic things - in the same film. Just as in my life, I can be very funny and at other times almost extinguished.

I do have anger management issues. Not clinical. Probably no more than most people.

Void is when there is absolutely nothing there and the nothing is natural, a complete vacuum. But empty - with empty, you are aware of what's supposed to be there. Empty means something is missing.

A man can be right and president, but he can't be both at the same time.

You don't have to justify a beautiful stroke of good luck. Accept it. Smile and say thank you.

We don't believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans.

To bend and prostrate oneself to express sentiments of respect, appears to be a natural motion.

Give a drag queen a fish and you feed her for a day; show her how to be fishy and you feed her for a lifetime.