Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.
I don't need my phone to play me music. I need it to be a phone and an e-mail thing.
People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.
I dont like the idea of being eaten by a shark. I like to swim in the ocean, and I think much more about sharks than anyone should. I really resent the fact that my oceangoing experiences are ruined by Jaws.
I poop in the backyard. . . I wear disposable diapers.
I kind of dread any kind of critical response, just because it's always painful in some way. Even if it's 80 percent good, it's the 20 percent that's bad that you remember - and that's a higher number than I usually get, 80 percent would be amazing.
You're raising a kid and you give it food and shelter and, most importantly, you give it the feeling that it's special. I think people react to celebrities like that - I mean, they treat celebrities like children.
We all act on what we know, what we see, what we are told and how we feel. The simple fact of the matter is that not a single one of us operates under identical influences. That is why the future is always uncertain.
I didn't much like being in Parliament physically. I found it a bit depressing. It's very dark and heavy. I like being out and about.
Everything is a subject; the subject is yourself. It is within yourself that you must look and not around you. . . The greatest happiness is to reveal it to others, to study oneself, to paint oneself continually in [one's] work.
Being a Christian, I'm eager to introduce people to Jesus. I just don't think I should do it in the science classroom