"Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour."

"At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame."

"Well I do think there are people who are habitually negative and depressed and take the opposite approach because they imagine the worst, and their minds become dominated by that. They let their own emotions and expectations transform their perceptions of the world."

"We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather."

"Wisdom principle 32 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 72."

"I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work."

"In life you need either inspiration or desperation."

"Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered there is only error to be exposed."