The nature of anguish is translated into different forms.

You paint the way you have to in order to give. That's life itself, and someone will look and say it is the product of knowing, but it has nothing to do with knowing, it has to do with giving.

People sometimes think I take a white canvas and paint a black sign on it,but this is not true.I paint the white as well as the black and the white is just as important.

I paint not the things I see but the feelings they arouse in me.

The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: do the painter's emotions come across?

If I feel a painting I'm working on doesn't have imagery or emotion, I paint it out and work over it until it does.

Half the world wants to be like Thoreau worrying about the noise of traffic on the way up to Boston; the other half use up their lives being part of that noise. I like the second half.

If you're a painter, you're not alone. There's no way to be alone.

You instinctively like what you can't do.

To be right is the most terrific personal state that nobody is interested in.

You don't need to wait for inspiration to write. It's easier to be inspired while writing that while not writing...

Until you step in the game and influence the skills, you will never change the score line.

Serving God brings us to a place of great honour. Putting people in ministry is helping them to find their calling and their place in the body of Christ.

If you're on the treadmill next to me, the answer is YES, we are racing.

The game isn't over until it's over.

Reasons why members of Congress deserve a pay raise: Many big corporations are cutting back on bribes; nearly half the members have never been indicted.

I don't have a tailor, but I do love clothes.

Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.

Yeah, the next Wu album should be out by late '95.

Poison Pill is a great reading. The novel ranges from Russian oligarchs to the American worlds of drug research and the equity markets, all of it in a mode of high suspense.