Killing is fundamentally in our nature because over the eons of human evolution murder was so surprisingly beneficial in the intense game of reproductive competition.

There can be no autonomous agent with unitary interests called 'society' that exerts causal influence. This is a logical impossibility

Women who are too easy to attract are perceived as less desirable.

A labyrinth is a symbolic journey . . . but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and world.

No hope no action.

Success in business depends more on relationships than spreadsheets.

Maybe silence is something we're uncomfortable with as a culture, I don't know.

I think it's important to try to be present with whatever it is you're doing. And if you can't be present, take a break.

There is no doubt that a woman's economic empowerment is very much interconnected to her health and the well being of her children.

We're wired to be empathetic and to care about the needs of others, but also to be curious about others. And I think that's just sort of in our DNA. And so portraiture is a very human act.

If the guy that writes you checks says cut your hair, off to the barber shop you go. That's that.

I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.