The care of rivers is not a question of rivers but of the human heart.

I truly believed that the creation of hope was the greatest of all the arts, the noblest of all the lies.

I grew up where my parents would literally shove me in the car rather than have to say hello to a neighbor.

Truth lives in the spaces between words. It defies translation.

The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability.

I believe in a lot of astrology. I believe in aliens. I look up into the stars and I imagine: How self-important are we to think that we are the only life-form?

I [drinking coffee] for about an hour, I get dressed and go down in my studio, and that's a different kind of working.

The ability to produce every necessity of life renders us independent in war as well as in peace.

To brisk notes in cadence beating, glance their many-twinkling feet.

Nobody could paint eyes like El Greco and nobody can paint eyes like Walter Keane.

I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.