What else do I have to offer? Nothing happens to me anymore. That’s the reality of getting old, and I guess that’s really the crux of the matter. I’m not ready to be old yet.

Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important.

I stare at her for a long moment. I want to kiss her. I want to kiss her more than I've ever wanted anything in my life.

When will people learn that just because you can make something doesn’t mean you should?

When I first submerged my feet into frigid water, they hurt so badly I yanked them out again. I persisted, dunking them for longer and longer periods, until the cold finally blistered.

With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.

I scan the room. Catherine is writing quickly, her light brown hair falling over her face. She is left-handed, and because she writes in pencil her left arm is silver from wrist to elbow.

You do right by me, I'll show you a life most suckers can't even dream of.

Is where you're from the place you're leaving or where you have roots?

The whole thing's illusion, [Jacob], and there's nothing wrong with that. It's what people want from us. It's what they expect.

Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.

Be original, express who you were born to be and be happy in who you are.

People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.

I am not a sad clown. I am not a sad clown.

He despised causeless affection, just as he despised unearned wealth. They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored all the things for which he could wish to be loved.

Raising George Walker was not easy.

Slits in nothingness are not very easy to paint.

I would never want something I'm wearing or the way I'm dancing or something to overshadow what I'm doing. I'd rather grab people's attention with my voice.

Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth.

I always tell employees: The group's benefit is more important than your personal benefit.

There were a lot of artists in St. Ives. In fact, since the time of Whistler, St. Ives has been noted as an artist colony.