We've got a recipe for disaster. It's huge -- this combination of body image issues and the drug's weight loss appeal.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.

Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre

A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.

One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs.

Why wait for a call when you have a command?

Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public

Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.

It is the nature of carnivores to get power and then, having disposed of their enemies, to deploy the emollient powers of Great Art to make themselves look like herbivores.

Writing is painting for the imagination!

We know you're strong, but accepting help is its own kind of strength.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen

God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.

The child who is uprooted begins to recognize that what he builds within himself is what will endure, what will withstand shattering experiences.

I couldn't describe how little interest I have in men. Or I could - but I don't think that it would be appropriate.

I do not propose to be buried until I am dead.

There are reproaches which praise, and praises which defame.

I definitely learned to embrace the quiet moments onstage from Garry Shandling - relaxing and not fighting with the crowd, not raising your voice, not ever trying to win them over.

We may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs in a heart that is in LOVE WITH GOD.