[John Craske] painted like a man giving witness under oath to a wild story.

To think of losing is to lose already.

It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.

... possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer.

The fatal flaw of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you.

Spring is strictly sentimental, self-regarding; but I burn more careless in the autumn bonfire.

Inflation is the senility of democracies.

cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.

One cannot overestimate the power of a good rancorous hatred on the part of the stupid. The stupid have so much more industry and energy to expend on hating. They build it up like coral insects.

Truth has beauty, power, and necessity.

Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste.

Hate when hate acquaints the burns, Love when love heals it!

Mental illness is not something you misunderstand in this era. Get educated because bias is no different than racism.

The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.

My work is like a dialogue between me and unseen powers, like alchemy.

Most Americans don't understand Canadian political parties. Neither do most Canadians

What inspires me in life? The idea that the work and the rewards and the process is the thing.

I'm a singer and a writer first. I started to rap by accident, being playful.

The history of a movement, the history of a nation, the history of a race is the guide-post of that movement's destiny, that nation's destiny, that race's destiny.

I keep my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles.

I can never tell what I'm gonna wear. I kind of just put on whatever feels right. Sometimes that's Converse and a T-shirt, sometimes it's Givenchy heels and leather pants.