To start with, anybody who would like the world to be a better place should be able to think like an economist.
What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith.
Maybe in that earlier phase I was painting the woman in me. Art isn't a wholly masculine occupation, you know.
The texture of experience is prior to everything else.
Yes, I am influenced by everbody. But every time I put my hands in my pockets I find someone else's fingers there.
Content is a glimpse.
I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history.
When I was a boy I used to think that STRONG meant having big muscles, great physical power; but the longer I live, the more I realize that real strength has much more to do with what is NOT seen. Real strength has to do with helping others.
My sisters would swear that I was the spoiled kid who got everything he wanted, and I would go "No way! I worked my ass off and you guys got everything. " We're all kind of in our own narratives.
Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
pacifists lead a lonely life. Not even gathering together can take the place of that vast, warm sun of approval that is shed on motherhood, on law-abiding, on killing, and on making money. Someday will we come into our own? Well, motherhood may move into the shade. Law-abiding is going through a trauma. But killing and making money are good for a long, long time.