Many with careers in the art world are intimidated, and afraid to speak out against the gospels of Modernist theory.

I draw inspiration from my travels, so I am always keeping my eye out for what is new in each corner of the country.

I love seeing Houston. Houston has a great style and energy.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Nine out of ten adult Americans have a checking account. It's the most widely used financial services product in the United States.

The soul knows everything. Be who you are and your life will transform forever.

When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.

Married pixy, I told myself, forcing my eyes back to the shelf of ceramic animals. Fifty-four kids. Beautiful wife, sweet as sugar, who would kill me in my sleep while apologizing for it.

If you want to be your own master ... always be surprised by evil; never anticipate it.

The crude product of nature, the object fashioned by the industry of man, acquire their reality, their identity, only to the extent of their participation in a transcendent reality.

I think that laziness in many ways is the human condition, and that's what has led us to this place where, as we've developed technology.

The way a man looks at himself in a mirror will tell you if he can ever care about anyone else.

By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.