It's a great idea: to feel the rhythm of something by seeing how it flows on a page.

There's a kind of slowness and inefficiency about rendering text in paint. We're in a world that's very fast, so things that slow you for a minute-give you pause-are good.

My job is not to produce answers. My job is to produce good questions.

Paint is a very sensual material. It's lovely to work with and lovely to look at.

Like any artwork, things become richer if you know more about them; but I don't think that's crucial.

Willem de Kooning paintings are a language to be learned. When they were first shown, they were ridiculed as being just drips and splatters and splashes. You had to learn how to read them.

I said to myself, "If the government thinks I'm an artist, I must be one."

Use everything you have to become what they said you couldn't

Prayer is meeting with God. It's checking in, saying I am here, You are here. It is the present moment.

What we spend, we lose. What we keep will be left for others. What we give away will be ours forever.

I studied poetry in college and for a year in an MFA program. As time went on, my poems got more and more complicated. What I was really trying to do was tell stories.

One of the remarkable things about love is that, despite very irritating people writing poems and songs about how pleasant it is, it really is quite pleasant.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish, too much handling will spoil it.

My idea of village SWARAJ is that is a complete republic, independent of its neighbors for its own vital wants, and yet interdependent for many others which dependence is a necessity.

Falling prices through increased production is a wonderful long-run tendency of untrammeled capitalism.

Offer Christ your heart in meditation and personal prayer which is the foundation of the spiritual life.

There was nothing humane about humanity. At the end of the day, they were all animals with only survival instincts.