To see color as form means looking at the image in a new way, trying to free oneself from absorption in subject matter.

One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.

I taught myself how to play the guitar, I taught myself how to play the drums, and I kind of fake doing both of them. But drumming comes more natural to me, and it just feels better.

Fix yourself upon the wealthy. In a word, take this for a golden rule through life: Never, never have a friend that is poorer than yourself.

The golden rays of the moon paid him absolute tribute. He was a buffet of muscles and corded strength.

The key question: will the NSA continue to monitor hundreds of millions of people without any suspicion? Under Obama's proposals: Yes.

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

The consolation of art comes in many forms... For some it is making, for others it is having.

I'd rather go to the dentist... but I'm going.

Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion.

I have been around conservatives my entire life. I have never met a single human being, in any place, who wanted to ban contraceptives.