Learn how to rest while you're awake

God is great. God is faithful. And His love is set upon us. We come as we are, with trembling trust.

Make the best of life while it last, tomorrow is a gift

If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

My home policy: I wage war my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.

I kept going back while I was writing the novel - which never sold, may it rest in peace - and by the time it was finished I had too many connections to Haiti to walk away.

I wanna make stuff that sonically sounds really good. I don't wanna make a song about how people think I'm this when I'm really that. I don't wanna make a song about how I grew up broke.

A cat is better than you are, more honest, more graceful, smarter for her size, better coordinated, and infinitely more beautiful.

I have had lots of luck in my career but there has also been a lot of hard work.

What would New York be without slavery?

There is one thing where people are always right. It is when they are describing what they have been feeling when watching your film. You cannot say: No, you did not feel like that!