No one but another painter could know the delicacy required to balance the complexities, to keep reality at bay in order to remain in the innermost center of his work.

To be a writer is to embrace rejection as a way of life.

The American educational psychologist Patricia Alexander has expressed the view that fear paralyses and curiosity empowers. Accordingly, she reasons, we should always be more interested than afraid.

Life is a broken thing. It's what we do with the pieces that defines us.

Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future

I write out of instinct.

A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.

Money is all about opportunity cost. Every time you spend on something, that's something you can't spend on something else.

Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'

Alone, I am drunk on my thoughts; in company, I am sober again.

Jesus is not a memory. He is an actual, contemporary, reachable Person. He is the living Christ, who has the power to enter into people's lives and change and lift them up.