The Rockwell magazine cover was more a part of the American reality than a record of it.

Whatever art is, it is no longer something primarily to be looked at. Stared at, perhaps, but not primarily looked at

Inspiration comes from not only within ourselves, but also from watching life around us.

Change back to your ugly self before I change your face for you, ” Logan said, Silver Frost.

Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian.

It's fun playing the judge, because I grew up on all the courtroom stuff in movies and TV. So, you know all the tropes, and you know all the expressions.

Before we can leave our parents, they stuff our heads like the suitcases which they jam-pack with homemade underwear.

I'm not an egomaniac like a lot of people say. But I am the world's best dancer, that's for sure.

O, merry is the Optimist, With the troops of courage leaguing. But a dour trend In any friend Is somehow less fatiguing.

It's worth remembering George W. Bush, Barack Obama also came in thinking they had the magic key to better, warmer relations with Russia; those efforts ended in tears.

I love the Chinese words for greeting: not strictly 'Hello' but 'Have you eaten yet?

Even in name, he seems like a Victorian oddity. "Igor, fetch 'the Crouch' from the catacombs, we're going to the graveyard".