My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting..

Accidental stacks considered harmful..

Reason, you'll always be half-blind..

It's never over till it's over with a friend..

Stand-up is something I just truly love to do, so I'll always go back to it. I'll never stop doing it, that's for sure..

The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying..

For we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make..

The days passed, as they do, and life went on..

she kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her face..

Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful..

Protecting yourself from failure is probably not a good way to live..

If you can't understand the blues, you don't know much.

You have to really have a taste for being alone to be a writer..

We live in a very gynophobic society.

Not being happy really is my fear..

I fear for the democratic system. And I fear for our liberties. Only a small group of people fights for our liberties. Once we start on the slippery ….

I was never trained for anything.

I don't want to make a half-assed film. It's not my area of expertise..

I do not sing politics. I merely sing the truth..

Life had sure been simpler when I hadn't dated..

I am not a Hemingway aficionado..