I paint to understand my world and my place in it. I paint to pray, to curse, to sort, to number, to structure, to destructure, to bleed, to preserve….

There are many things one thinks about in a painting. Often, it's how to handle your chosen medium and how to best reveal the light in a three-dimens….

Get into something that's really personal that means something to you, where you have something to say and is something really individualized. I wish….

Let no man think we can deny civil liberty to others and retain it for ourselves. When zealous agents of the Government arrest suspected "radicals" w….

I try not to plan ahead. I just kind of try to think in the moment. I always believe everything will work out the way it's supposed to..

It was hard to trust someone enough to let them all the way in when I didn't think they deserved to be there. -Cora.

I am cursed with a right leg that arouses the desire of any male dog that happens to be passing. I used to think that this only happened to me but I'….

Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life..

I'm beginning to think that life is about passing moments and small celebrations. Without them there's only pain, fear, ambition, and, for some of us….

I call my dad 'Admiral Ass Hat,' he doesn't really think it's funny..

Interruptions: The average worker gets interrupted five times each hour. It takes an average of 5 minutes to handle each interruption and 1 minute to….

I really do think inspiration comes from day-to-day life. I think there's things that pique our interest - not necessarily aha! moments - but things ….

I'm going to keep going until I succeed — or die. Don't think I don't know how this might end. I've known it for years..

I really truly worry that the debt is one of the single biggest threat to the United States of America, that we're talking about a problem that is mu….

The reason why any one refuses his assent to your opinion, or his aid to your benevolent design, is in you: he refuses to accept you as a bringer of ….

When I was little, I spent a lot of time by myself. When other kids were in school, I was skiing and thinking about things. I was alone on the mounta….

When you are writing a spoken word poem, the tools you're working with are your voice, your body, how it's going to sound to someone when you're sayi….

My main concern is quality and I think there is quality to be found in all categories of filmmaking..

Let no man think we can deny civil liberty to others and retain it for ourselves..

But I think traveling around and going around the world and making arrangements for moving around is the most difficult thing, 'cuz you don't know wh….

You see 'awesome' and I see 'lost.' It's very easy to lose touch with reality when you've got that many people thinking you are more than you really ….