You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last.

The strong survive, but the courageous triumph.

A boy and a girl, dressed in the T-shirts and denim that are the shabby uniform of this age.

They ex­pect­ed to lose. And there­fore, they lost. [..] Peo­ple who start think­ing deep dark thoughts in the mid­dle of a war start ex­pect­ing to lose.

Master the rules of the game until you can play it better they can.

Some stories wait their turn to be told, others just tap you on the shoulder and insist you tell them.

A warrior with a cause is the most dangerous soldier of all

The problem with contemporary art is that no one bothers to do the research necessary to give people what they want.

At the heart of every legend there is a grain of truth.

He who retreats lives longer.

Artists want to sell their work, sure. But they aren't out there asking questions about what people want and what they don't want, now are they?

Are there any other missing persons living under your roof? Elvis? Jimmy Hoffa? Amelia Earhart? I'd just like full disclosure now, before we go any further.

I'm accustomed to reading Georgian and Victorian letters and sometimes you simply know in your gut that a blithe sentence is covering up a deeper emotion.

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.

Nothing which implies contradiction falls under the omnipotence of God.

If only I can realize how ephemeral my life is, then I will never be able to hurt anyone.

If women’s role in life is limited solely to housewife/mother, it clearly ends when she can no longer bear more children and the children she has borne leave home.

The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

. . . meekness,love, purity, these are the things that should magnify us.

I don't consider genre while writing.

Children are sent to school to be civilized, to learn to be part of the social enterprise.