That is why my pictures don't look like modern art. It's some sort of timidity on my part I'm sure.

Art is the only place you can do what you like. That's freedom.

If you put frightening things into a picture, then they can't harm you. In fact, you end becoming quite fond of them.

Every change is a form of liberation. My mother used to say a change is always good even if it's for the worse.

We interpret the world through stories... everybody makes in their own way sense of things, but if you have stories it helps.

Sketches always have more vitality than paintings because you're finding things out through doing them.

Poetry is good for unleashing images.

The gaps between the forms worry me. I can never get these spaces right.

I'm not fashionable at all, and the fact that I manage to sell pictures without being fashionable is thanks to my gallery.

Bryce carried her to the bed and lowered her onto it. He crawled to her with a predatory look, leaving her no doubt she was the prey. "I promise to make you feel good.

The Secret of Happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

Climate change is the Everest of all problems, the thorniest challenge facing humankind.

The historical approach to understanding of scientific fact is what differentiates the scholar in science from the mere experimenter.

If someone proved to me that Christ is outside the truth, and that in reality the truth were outside of Christ, then I should prefer to remain with Christ rather than with the truth.

I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age.

Evangelicalism can only remain evangelical if it is passionately serious about truth and theology.

People love freedom - but nobody wants responsibility. And they come together, they are inseparable.

Unteachable from infancy to tomb — There is the first & main characteristic of mankind.