I like it that my career has all the predictability and continuity of a children's nonsense rhyme.

Letter writing is an excellent way of slowing down this lunatic helterskelter universe long enough to gather one’s thoughts

Our old experiences, memories and fears guide us down the present path. It's not so much that you are the artist; you are the conduit.

Every one of us sees 'green' differently. So everything is an approximation of understanding.

Art becomes a spiritual process depending upon the degree of commitment that you bring to it. Every experience becomes direct food for your art. Then your art teaches you about life.

I don't think I am scared of intimacy, but I am frightened of making a mistake. offering more than I have, or expecting more than you can give. - Matt Sedon

It's the nasty and the accident that form the foundation for elegance that comes later.

You cannot separate art from life or spirituality. They are bound together in a single unit.

Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows

She who licks her lips knows the taste of her lover's desires

Art is like therapy; what comes up is what comes up. It may be dark, but that's what comes up. You may want to keep some of it in a drawer but never judge it.

There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.

Ungentlemanliness?” he teased. “I dare you to say that five times fast.

The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.

Who would bring light must endure burning.

Often, problems are knots with many strands, and looking at those strands can make a problem seem different.

There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.

How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!

I had a terrible marriage the first time around because I had no self-confidence, even though I had tremendous self-confidence.

It is a natural impossibility for any man to make a binding contract, by which he shall surrender to others a single one of what are commonly called his 'natural, inherent, inalienable rights.'

It's like a dream sometimes, a song just pops into your head and you can't tell if it's something you heard or it's new and you got to write it down.