But happiness. . . happiness grows at our own firesides," she said. "It is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. " ~ The House at Riverton
I make figurative portraits as a way to explore theories of quantum physics.
Everything we know has come from stories that have been told over and over again as truth. Those stories turn into history.
I keep writing children’s books, I keep making children’s books, because I still have them inside of me.
Curiosity is the surest sign of intelligence
I'm interested in how we define things by how we choose to observe them, and how everywhere in our lives, and in every moment we experience, there are forces at work that we don't fully understand. Couple this curiosity with a love of portraiture painting, and that's how this project was born.
If you care too much about what others think then you ultimately become what you think they want you to be.
In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've always stopped myself.
I get how devastating high taxes are to job creation.
Food was always a big part of my life. My grandfather was one of 14 kids, and his parents had a pasta factory, so as a kid, he and his siblings would sell pasta door to door. After he became a movie producer, he opened up De Laurentiis Food Stores - one in Los Angeles and one in New York.
If you're meeting with the dharma, you have probably been a human being before.