It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free.
I think of myself as a beginner. Sometimes that's the whole joy. If you could just do it, there'd be no point in doing it.
If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective
Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.
If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.
I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.
My subject matter was a genuine sort of experience that came out of my life, particularly the American world in which I was privileged to be. . . . I would really think of the bakery counters, of the way the counter was lit, where the pies were placed, but I wanted just a piece of the experience. From when I worked in restaurants. . . [it was] always poetic to me.
There is a norm, there is a model of the way things are supposed to be. When you find yourself outside of that, when you find yourself not fitting the way things are designed to be, it's a simple matter of just learning how you ought to be and working to restore the way things are supposed to be.
Bankruptcies and addictions increase in areas with casinos
I have great faith that Heaven's there and I'll see my brothers and my mom and dad when I get there.
I'm really good at solitaire and I can turn my arms in full circles.