The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.

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.

Yesterday is gone, live for today and leave a legacy for tomorrow.

Guilt and fear are a kind of rot. It spreads unless it's cleaned. And there's only one way to do that.

Most great fortunes are built slowly. They are based on the principle of compound interest, what Albert Einstein called, "The greatest power in the universe."

Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover the world.

Peter is ... adjusting. He's back in school, and he's doing quite well. I wish you could find it in your heart to forgive him." "I've got this funny resentful streak about people who try to kill me.

It is not his possession of knowledge, of irrefutable truth, that makes the man of science, but his persistent and recklessly critical quest for truth.

Spend your energy on things that make a difference.

....nothing is so unhealthy or unstable as the reputation for power that is not based on one's own power.

Paparazzi need more flattering lenses.

I feel like humor is a part of life. I don't think it comes through as much in the novels as it does in my head.