It feels so good to laugh at myself. I'd probably cry my eyes out if I didn't.

In every landscape should reside jewels of abstract art waiting to be discovered.

Each part of a great painting should in itself be a great painting.

No one has ever made me feel like this, no one. So much regret, so much loss, and so much desire all swirled together in my muddled brain. In my muddled heart.

When i tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

Life is reflections of our thoughts.

Marriage is sleeping together in a bed a little too narrow.

People do not come to hear what I have to say—they want to know what God has to say.

If I was a nobody you wouldn't be so eager to see me dead. Just like these people you know that I am devoted to the truth. That is why you want to eliminate me." - Magda Searus

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

There you are, diligently swimming a straight line, minding the form of your strokes, when you look up and see, always a shock, the currents you can't even feel have pulled you off course.

I want to bring accountability to the federal government. I want the federal government to respect the states.

If you work with your mind, that will alleviate all the suffering that seems to come from the outside.