Drawing and masturbation were the first sacred experiences I remember.

Be stubborn and persist, and trust yourself on what you love. You have to trust what you love.

I'm a painter. I'm still a painter and I will die a painter. Everything that I have developed has to do with extending visual principles off the canvas.

In the end, it's always a single person who makes change. But I do think we should try to send artists out into the world and not have them all stick together in the big cities.

An older friend once told me, "Life didn't ask for your opinion," which I liked.

It's a very difficult age when the forces of time want to destroy us and take us away. They're just snatching people like devils; death comes and grabs each of us.

I don't even like the word 'relax'! If I have a partner and we make love a lot, then I'm in a very pure state of being.

I'm used to working with neglect and misunderstanding, so this has been really challenging. It's a different psychic realm. The Lion did not land easily here.

Happily ever after doesn’t just happen because you’ve found the love of your life. Happiness is a personal choice.

Transitional periods in life are unsettling because a person’s latent fears constantly whisper warnings.

I am good at keeping secrets. I am wrapped in them now, the way I am wrapped in lies, like my sweater, clinging tightly to my skin, even on the hottest of days.

The CDU, the great party of the center, is back. It is the biggest party in parliament. We will make what we can of this great result.

To believe in'the greater good' isto operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension.

We will not stop resisting the occupation until liberation or martyrdom.

So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.

If you are doing something for reward or punishment, you do not have morality.

It's in our own lives, every single day, whether we recognize it as funny at the moment or not.

As for what you're calling hard luck - well, we made New England out of it. That and codfish.