There was a lot of tension between my dad and his mother and brothers. Sometimes when I was over there, I remember thinking, "I don't want to get shot."

I just realized that I never look at a painting and ask, 'Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?' It’s just a painting.

Writing should be like skirts. Long enough to cover what it needs to cover and short enough to maintain interest.

Samuel Clemens isn't Mark Twain. Mark Twain is Mark Twain. He doesn't become the thing until he creates himself.

I have no interest in being a trained ballerina. People should dance how they want to dance. I want to be the funky chicken.

We like something because someone else liked it.

It's like that where these little anecdotes come through, and I guess that's what I like about books like that [He Stopped Loving Her Today]. Fiction now is so experiential.

The things that I have loved have always been those extremes where there has been some kind of apocalypse in the person's life, and they come out unscathed or scathed.

So much of our culture is bought and manufactured - not to say great art can't come out of that. Some art is really amazing that is manufactured and sold, like action movies and stuff.

I guess the things I have always loved are from people who were just being themselves. They were doing these things because they couldn't do it any other way. It was for them.

I think maybe it's my personality. People don't like my face.

We walk alone in the wilderness.

Heresy, " by the way, simply means "choice." It came to mean "thoughtcrime, " implying it was blasphemy to presume to choose your own belief instead of swallowing what the bishops spoonfed you.

We may have lots of differences, We may not be the perfect couple.But in-spite of those differences, In-spite of those imperfection, We are always at our best for each other...

Strive to be optimistic rather than pessimistic— forgiving rather than a grudge holder.

If we have, through grace, an interest in Him who is the Fountain, we may rejoice in him when the streams of temporal mercies are dried up.

The bravest man feels an anxiety 'circa praecordia' as he enters the battle; but he dreads disgrace yet more.

I like to be surprised by life; it's a good thing to search for the puzzle pieces.

I don't feel the pressure by outsiders. I'm not someone who's easily influenced by the public.

In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women.

Tell Youth to play with Wine and Love and never bear away the scars! I may as well tilt up the sky and yet try not to spill the stars.