Secrets are never so dangerous as when they've been forgotten.

He speaks in a way that leaves no room for argument, on the edge of condescension and caring. It's a trick all men of the South have to learn before they're accepted as one of the good ol' boys.

The Servant who really studies his Master gradually becomes like his master

I dropped the candies into the children's bags, thinking: You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.

What it comes down to is that anybody can win with the best horse. What makes you good is if you can take the second or third best horse and win.

I wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love.

Trying to find equivalents for things in words helps me find equivalents in painting.

Those who have their hands dyed deep in blood cannot build a nonviolent order for the world.

Politics and hypocrites is turning us all into lunatics.

But how awful would that be? How terrible to live surrounded by the stark, sharp, hollowness of things that simply were enough?

A form of art that I like is portraiture. I've been thinking about portraiture, and its relationship to writing and literature, biography and autobiography, and so that will be my next thing.

You have to understand what caused genocide to happen. Or it will happen again.