But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating.

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies

Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.

Piers is always going on about how he hated Stowe. As if that solves everything, as if to hate something means it can't have affected you.

I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.

The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke.

I love honesty and freedom and giving. I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.

He said, one has to learn that painting well - in the academic and technical sense - comes right at the bottom of the list. I mean, you've got that ability. So have thousands.

If there is a God he's a great loathsome spider in the darkness.

I hate beyond hate.

Mma Ramotswe reflected on how easy it was to find oneself committed to a course of action simply because one lacked the courage to say no.

Meditation is a deep thought.

Tell yourself you’re dead, the way Matt does, so the past can’t hurt you.

Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.

There's no question in my mind but that rights are never won unless people are willing to fight for them.

But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken from him. He held her feeling she was all of life there was and it was true.

You would think that Freddy Couples-Nick Price would be the team to beat, but I'll tell you in skins, it's a matter of just hitting it at the right time.

Purim is the birthday of the first Schutz-Jude , the first Jewish toady to foreign royalty.

Good bands you can kind of lose, then come back and realize they're still good.

I love poetry, read it a lot, but make no claim to being able to write it.