Is heaven more beautiful than the country of the muskox in summer when sometimes the mist blows over the lakes and sometimes the water is blue and the loons cry very often?

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Maybe people [in Hollywood] wear really nice clothes, and they drive really nice cars, but that doesn't make me comfortable. And if I'm not comfortable, it won't be a part of my life.

I'm not the savior of men's tennis in America. I'm just a kid trying to win a few matches.

As a world leader, America must be prepared to confront any challenge.

Wolf Hall attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes.

Among living artists, George Condo may be the most embraced by the powers that be.

There is no cosmic scale on which you can weigh your actions; you learn too late what choices ruin the fragile balance.

I'm proud to represent those hands that labor in this country. I've given every maid I've ever portrayed soul and heart.

The course is perfection and it asks perfection.

The language of God is not English or Latin; the language of God is cellular and molecular.