A man who will steal for me will steal from me." Theodore Roosevelt, dismissing on the spot one of his best cowhands who was about to claim for his boss an unmarked animal.

[God] is a kind of perpetual critique of instrumental reason.

In writing, there is art. And in art there is craft ...

Just the fact that a thousand people in front of me were ready to hear me sing was one of the best feelings I can think of.

Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.

Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need.

My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it.

Sometimes when looking through my pile of drawings, I find an image that... awakens in me a passionate desire to inhabit it, as though I were to feel more at home in it than in myself.

Energy is more attractive than beauty in a man.

My friend Michael Reagan has given us the blueprint for a new Reagan revolution- and he has given Ronald Reagan back to us again. Read it, learn it, live it, love it!

Some of us just have to work harder to stay in the game.