"I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special."

"Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends - your own chosen family. There's nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing."

"I really am pretty happy with what God gave me."

"I had an idea of what I thought was funny. It's kind of based on how I am."

"Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them."

"A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament."

"Wolfgang Tillman's stunning large-scale pictures, being shown for the first time, were so offhand I failed to see them as art."

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."