One ends up with a landscape one has never seen before but it is presumably the landscape you were feeling as you started the painting.

Painting is an extension of man's means of communication. As such, it's pure, difficult, and wonderful.

I'm compelled and dedicated to transmitting emotions and I care for very little else.

Love slowly like a ship full of flowers.

When the critics come around it's always too late.

Trust men and they will be true to you

But I am a storyteller, and that involves language, for me the English language, that wonderfully rich, complex, and ofttimes confusing tongue. When language is limited, I am thereby diminished, too.

Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.

The 'Hipster Nerds' like stuff because they hate it. It's like they ironically like it.

All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the working of this law, as of all benign laws, is fear.

Each generation's job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation's system of values for a new age.

We gild our medicines with sweets; why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?

The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.

If I had to name the number one asset you could have for any sport I'd say speed. In baseball, all a guy with speed has to do is make contact.

People are terrible. They do terrible things to each other, they hurt each other, they lie, they're vain, they're shallow, they're violent ... but they're all we have.