It is such a relief to be told the truth.

The past is never where you think you left it.

Love must be learned and learned again; There is no end.

You waste life when you waste good food.

You shouldn't side-step suffering if you have to go through it to get where you're going.

Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

What we need now is endless courage.

Each generation must get on the same old merry-go-round, only disguised in a fresh coat of paint.

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

I get so tired of moral bookkeeping.

Darkness just loosens the mask. Sharpens the mind's eye. Makes the color of a remembered pencil, or a tick of waxy red on a cracked plaster wall, as vivid as that taillight a few feet away.

The church should not be pampered but rather prepare for, and expect, persecution—for it is Christ’s body on earth.

Ambition if it feeds at all does so on the ambition of others.

A little bit of this, a little bit of that. I never had any specific style.

I am a serious artist in my own right, in the sense that I've spent my entire life being an artist and trying to be an artist and making work.

Cats are hard to train, but they can train them.

There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth.

Once a person comes to rely on the government for support, that person becomes a socialist through and through.

We don't really understand something until we have forgotten it.

In America , the media lives in a vacuum where they are able to not just criticize; they're able to destroy.