People have their own ideas how about they should appear.

I wanted everybody to see a sunrise and be knocked out by the miracle of it, the world being created every morning.

I look at the textures, surfaces, colors, and the individual objects in the painting. And then I wonder: what are the relationships among them? Those relationships are everything.

Every book is a unique experience.

You have to learn how to do each book. It's a different world, a different show.

I like the computer! It's a gadget, and I love gadgets. But it's very complicated and I didn't think I'd have the time to learn.

We are creatures like everything else in our world.

It took me a long time to stop thinking that someone else knew what a great painting was. I was never sure.

I'm the expert when it comes to my paintings. I think all great painters have to have that confidence in what they are seeking and when they're getting there.

I almost always see what I didn't achieve, to a smaller or greater extent.

Self-confident people face their fears head-on and are willing to take risks.

Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow.

It's not what you see on-screen that makes a performance. It's the things you should never know about - it's the secrets.

The ability to make hard truths palatable is one that every long-lived co-leader has mastered.

I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.

I am too impatient to wait for temptation to come to me.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

All of humanity is in peril of extinction if each one of us does not dare, now and henceforth, always to tell only the truth, and all the truth, and to do so promptly - right now.

A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing.

I like to make people a little uncomfortable. It encourages them to examine who they are and why they think the way they do.