It's more this instinct to get in trouble, and then get myself out of trouble. That's what painting is for me.

All accidents and experiments, and discoveries, are what my work is about. The problem that I have as an artist is being way too critical.

Every painting I've ever done has like 100 paintings under it.

The works have to look like they're confident. But they also have to look sort of troubled. It's this weird thing: "Does that look confident and troubled?" It's a bit like difficult poetry.

That’s the huge problem with an abstract painting. When are you done? You’re done when you don’t want to do it anymore.

Being bad. Discomfort with your body. Bad self image. All those things turn you into an artist. The same things that keep you from being in a proper marriage.

I've never read a book on shape. I've read books on gesture; I've read tons of books on color, surface, field, ground, representation, abstraction. But I've never read a book on what a shape is.

A lot of what I do in my work is taking a thing and either washing it off, scraping it, covering it, scraping it and then washing it, turning it upside down. Making it somehow blind.

As god is my witness, it was never my intent to throw out the constitution. I thought it was hanging by a thread, and I could save it... You don't save it by cutting that thread. - President Nielson

We are all walking repositories of hidden treasures.

It is difficult when reading the description of certain fictional characters not at the same time to imagine the real-life acquaintances who they most closely, if often unexpectedly, resemble.

You want to start over?" he murmured against her ear. His hot breath sent shivers to her toes.

Hunger and a lack of blood-corpuscles take all the manhood from a man.

Survival is a passive way of saying “my needs are greater than yours.

It's very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good example for young people, being a role model, is very important for me.

This is the sum; my brethren, preach Christ, always and evermore. He is the whole gospel. His person, offices, and work must be our one great all-comprehending theme

The mark of extraordinary merit is to see those most envious of it constrained to praise.

Movies are getting more and more expensive to distribute. You need a lot of money to get people into theaters