Study your subject through half-closed eyes before starting to draw - you'll find that the lights and darks are exaggerated and easier to identify.

Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.

A lot of people now think Im a shoe. They dont even know I was a tennis player. The shoe has really taken on a life of its own, way beyond me.

Winning is great, but it's the l9ong road to get there that makes it worthwhile.

When you walk on a court, clear your mind of everything unrelated to the goal of playing the match as well as you can.

Son, feelings are what women have. They come from their ovaries.

Sweeping gestures from the shoulder allow you to make generous marks, well suited to large scale work. You don't get anything simpler than this - I'm sure it is the way the cave men drew.

Hey, all I was trying to do was keep my country and my family safe!

God pays twice as much attention on Christmas, like the media when a white kid goes missing.

Line is so versatile - you can do a fine, tight, closely observed description or simply put a line around an idea - like a cartoonist.

If you've worked over all of your drawing, it should finish itself - often when you least expect it.

Sitting next to Tilo, breathing next to her, he felt like an empty house whose locked windows and doors were creaking open a little, to air the ghosts trapped inside it.

My internal and external life depend so much on the work of others that I must make an extreme effort to give as much as I receive.

A lot of girls who turn into something remarkable start off as irrepressible, confident and a handful.

On Thanksgiving, you realize you're living in a modern world. Millions of turkeys baste themselves in millions of ovens that clean themselves.

The outpouring of generosity is overwhelming. People across the Lehigh Valley are moved by the images they are seeing on TV and they want to know how they can help.

Ultimately a good logo is something that people recognize instantly and relate to.

I know that sounds ineffective and daunting, but it [throw hundreds of pages away] is actually my favorite part of the writing process.

Poetry doesn't function by saying things straightforwardly because the language is too imprecise, too limited often, to address the underlying subject of most poems.

Try things. Laugh a lot. Mess up. Apologize. Hug people. Take chances. Trust yourself. Lose things. Get over it.

It's at the very moment you want to give up on your dreams that you must expand them until they move you again.