Unless you're prepared to make a mistake, you'll never do anything that hasn't been done before. You have to be prepared to be embarrassed.

One of my favorite things about art, especially at a gallery, is hearing people talk about the art. I find it quite amusing.

I'm sure you're always working in your head, but when you're actually physically working, you're in your studio, right? For me, it changes all the time. That's something I really love.

All Americans mourn the passing of the author of the Declaration of Independence, George Jefferson.

Honor is the greatest poet.

Labour is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to men.

The Russian economy is way down because of the price of oil, and because the USSR was a big chunk of it.

If Bush wins, I'm going to leave the country and spend the rest of my life in France.

The love of fame puts spurs to the mind

The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.

If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.

Money's only important when you don't have any.

Don't put yourself in a time-out.