It is my entire visual art practice: I eat, sleep, think, write about and do drawing.

In my work I've never done preliminary drawing, because it's sometimes difficult to repeat something or to continue when the urgency's gone.

I work on drawing as a final product.

If I can't trust your word, I can't trust you.

The letters released something, maybe a sense that he was not alone, that the world was a place where travelers in language could know the same things.

I would be the first to admit that my maternal instincts are not well developed--though in defense I must add that the raising of Ramses would have discouraged any woman.

Service, it seems, is the only antidote to existential frustration.

Women prefer speaking to talking.

Politically, nowadays, as we know and feel, we are similarly underrepresented and not heard.

It is sinful for students to badmouth their teachers and sinful for teachers to mislead their students.

It is only by frequent deaths of ourselves and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully.

Nobody has to tell nobody nothing,” I say, taking another step forward. “You never were a poet, were you, Todd?” he says.

It doesn't do to be sentimental about cats; the best ones don't respect you for it