You will never know how high you can climb until you reach the top.

Artistic creativity is a whirlpool of imagination that swirls in the depths of the mind.

I spent the first half of my career learning what to put into my work, and the second half learning what to leave out.

I failed math; Einstein passed it. But he couldn’t paint and sculpt like me. So we all have these specialties, these strengths.

Strip it all down to essentials and draw the hell out of what's left.

To add to truth distracts from it.

Truth in my love for the subject will produce superior results.

One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else.

Sometimes the sound of silence is the most deafening sound of all.

You don't have the right to complain about your life if you're not willing to change it

Powerful words come with powerful intent. Where you have passion, strength, courage, and determination you can accomplish anything!

Your tongue is moving my King but the words are not making their way to my ears

We all know we're going to die. We're all circling the drain. Some of us are closer than others. I'm 90, I know I'm closer to the drain than most people.

Come on. I got drunk when I was like 5.

Women have allowed you to think that, which is a part of their inaccessibility in using their second attention.

Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature; one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole of a single weakness.

I like playing on stage, don't get me wrong.

I would never have been a novelist without working as a psychologist...it was a great education in human nature.

You've just got to go out there and try to control the things you can control. Deal with things and stay mentally strong.

The heart should have fed upon the truth, as insects on a leaf, till it be tinged with the color, and show its food in every ... minutest fiber.

I think the air is out of the gun control balloon, and I think what popped the balloon is politics and elections.