Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

Let me be candid, my party is full of racists

Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces.

All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what.

This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.

And it is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelette in the pan for the love of God.

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

I would describe my work as expressionist. The expressionist point of view is stressing your own feelings about something.

To worship God in truth is to recognize Him for being who He is, and to recognize ourselves for what we are.

If I don't have anything to do all day, I might not even put my pants on.

We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.

Children are the best recorders of information - they miss nothing

A small step forward . . .every . . single . . .day. The sun is coming up and I am wondering, 'What wondrous thing shall I witness today?

When things are going really well, we should take time to notice it.

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

Sometimes it makes me sad that I didn't get to have one family for my entire life.

Please Mia," he implores. "Don't make me write a song.

Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Patience is the most valuable trait of the endgame player.

The future belongs to the one most fully alive in the present.

Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.