It's lonely up in the top

How important are the visual arts in our society? I feel strongly that the visual arts are of vast and incalculable importance. Of course I could be prejudiced. I am a visual art.

I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

Gerard turned away and ignored the cruelty of the meerkats, tore it from his mind. Lucretia needed a heart.

If you have to worry about a man, he's not worth worrying about.

Writers were never meant to be professionals. Writing is not a profession, it is an activity, an essentially amateur occupation. It is what you do when you are not living.

The extraordinary thing about my mother, she's so modest about me.

In general, I think very few people have a sustained interest in news.

Deep down you know you can be remarkable. You shouldn't settle for anything less than your best self, reaching ever closer to your potential -- whether as a leader or in any other part of your life.

The Bible is either absolute, or it's obsolete.

Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial.

I've been telling people for 12 years that if you want to get a nuclear device into the United States, just bring it through the port of Miami disguised as cocaine.