It's numbers like these that both bubble-theorists and market cheerleaders can pounce on to make their points. Reality is more mundane.

It's the in-between, the sustenance, not just the gears and bolts that make a human. When you forget to find out how the person was built—the oil, chemistry, and the craft—you miss all the beauty.

I know all the theory of everything but when I paint I don't think of anything except the subject and me.

There's really nothing wrong with sentimentality... Nothing I wrote is sentimental.

If you want everything, you first have to give everything up.

if I inflict wounds, I heal them.

Love what you do or don't do it.

Your virtue raises your glory above your crime.

Of Virginia Woolf: The talent of this generation which is most certain of survival.

American culture is often so self-consumed that we often think that our problems are just our problems.

My main focus is on my game.