I knew I wanted to be an artist at age 5 or 6. I always drew. At 8, I was permitted to study.

My idea being that for the sublime and the beautiful and the interesting, you do not have to look far away. You have to know how to see.

I have a feeling that in art the need to understand and the need to communicate are one.

For me, cooking is an extension of love.

But that was the least of it. He knew the worst of her, and that was better.

God Hates divorce.""He hates cruelty even more."Caring For Eleanor

He sounded like he was used to people swearing at him, which made no damnedsense, because he was gorgeous and a hero.

When you talk about a 'broad-based business tax,' that's a pretty broad term. I don't know what that means. But it's not something I would be supportive of.

Love is a word. A sound. Its association with a particular feeling is arbitrary, unmeasurable, and ultimately meaningless

A lot of men just don't read. They don't read fiction at all.

It's a new normal and I really do think that global weirding is the best way to describe what we're seeing.

Righteousness has never precluded adversity.

Love is not a plant of slow growth.

We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.