It seems to me very important to the idea of democracy to the country and to the world eventually that all men and women stand equal under the sky.

Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

Filling a space in a beautiful way - that is what art means to me.

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.

If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.

When people read erotic symbols into my painting, they're really thinking about their own affairs.

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

God’s grace—His goodness and love toward us in spite of our sin—is the wellspring of our salvation.

Sleep is out... tired is the new black.

Looking for work sounds almost as bad as finding it.

Did you folks see President Bush's State of the Union Address? How about that surprise announcement? Howard Dean has been captured and he's in the hands of interrogators.

Love is like the lion’s tooth.

So many of the things I've predicted were technologies that were just sitting right in front of us.

Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?

We were trained as writers with the idea that literature is something that can change reality, that it's not just a very sophisticated entertainment, but a way to act.

Though we be active in the battle, if we are not fighting where the battle is the hottest, we are traitors to the cause.

We should cultivate the serenity, because in the substance of sincerity germinate the most beautiful flowers of the Spirit.