I draw what I feel, which is no more than doing my job.
If you don't have heroes in the beginning, you don't grow.
What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.
We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities.
Not every successful man is a good father. But every good father is a successful man.
Never use money to measure wealth, son.
If you don't daydream and kind of plan things out in your imagination, you never get there. So you have to start someplace.
We could imagine nothing pleasanter than to spend all of our lives digging for relics of the past.
Prayer is an expression of who we are. . . We are a living incompleteness. We are a gap, an emptiness that calls for fulfillment.
But there's no way to avoid regret. Don't let anybody tell you different. Regret is just life's aftertaste. No matter what you choose, you're gonna wonder if you shoulda done things different. I didn't necessarily choose wrong. I just chose. And I lived with my choice, aftertaste and all.
I know now that the mythic monster I created was largely a fiction.