It was a great test of my ability to work with... watercolors. And it was also a test of my patience; I needed to put myself in a completely disciplined position... I couldn't make mistakes.

To me, watercolor is a Western medium, so when I feel like I am using a Western manner I will use English to sign my name.

It's destiny! Perhaps it is the energy that pulls on the threads and, well, I'm just leaving it as it is meant to be.

It is not about surpassing the masters who preceded us but more about opening new artistic vistas. It is about doing the things they didn't have a chance or the time to do.

Hyperrealism is more about objectifying... how an object can be portrayed when it is seen through a camera's lens... all my paintings are about an object being viewed through human eyes.

I hope to bring ancient philosophy and new scientific thinking together, to provide a new perspective of nature, especially the relationship between nature and man.

I can tell how good a novel is by how it portrays Jesus.

Despite any warnings, she continued to move towards the flames he had ignited within her. Her limbs tingled as the fire spread, each touch of Alex's hands and lips caused a wave of cinders.

Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II.

None of us are going to have perfect lives. Our own vision of what we think is good maybe different from what He [God] thinks. And we forget that. We think we know what's best and we don't.

I have two questions about Arnold Schwarzenegger. What does he know, and when will he know it?

To be brutally honest, it's simple economics. If they want to come into cycling, sponsors need to know the team they are funding is clean, otherwise the risk is just too great.

It's my singing that allows me to stand apart.

That's what I am; I'm a drip. You still get hydrated, you still get your nutrients, just a little at a damn time.

Whatever it is, in a 1% GDP world, I think people feel like there are other things they have to do other than just organic growth.

Do what we can, summer will have its flies.