Love and fear, the two strongest emotions we have. It all starts with emotion.

Black and white can show how something is. Color adds how it is, imbued with temperatures and humidities of experience.

A lot of education is like teaching marching; I try to make it more like dancing.

Everything that would begin to make somebody a good student would tend to make him or her a poor artist, and vice versa.

Matisse can make you hate your life for its comparatively insipid joys.

To me, the greatest artists are almost entirely non-verbal.

You could say that clinical depression is an incapacity to aesthetic response. It's like there's a constant agreement within ourselves, a kind of mutual understanding between ourselves and the world.

What I want to know from students, and I ask them right away, is, 'What do you want? I don't care what it is. I want to help you get it.

I can do pretty good work in various short forms, but anything over 1400 words, I'd be of no use. I like to say I'm a river navigator. I need to see the shore behind the shore.

I think being interested is really what being civilized is about. I mean, you have to be conscious of everything.

I find that the mask of the critic is to have distance.

We're standing here, beat to shit, walking away from a crime scene where either or both of us could have bought it, and you're asking me to marry you?""Perfect timing.

Youths are passed through schools that don’t teach. Then forced to search for jobs that don’t exist and finally left stranded to stare at the glamorous lives advertised around them.

Impatience can teach us the lessons of patience better

Just because I'm a murdering, thieving, cowardly, traitorous sort doesn't mean I can't do my job properly.

A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.

Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too.

It's not that I dislike many people. It's just that I don't like many people.

Through the most simple things which we do all the time, we can feel out to which degree we honor everything with our inner attention.

I mulled over what he had told me as I savored the Scotch. Not bad, really - like a beer that's been in a brawl.

Man's dominion is a call to service, not a license to to exterminate.