Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people

So it's been a slow process and it's taken some patience. That's why patients are called patients I think - patience is required.

Bowie Kuhn

If my kid couldn't draw I'd make sure that my kitchen magnets didn't work.

Mitch Hedberg

The respect that you have for yourself sets a standard for others.

Evette Carter

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life -- this much we can stand. But the real problem is that government is boring. We could cure or mitigate the other ills Washington visits on us if we could only bring ourselves to pay attention to Washington itself. But we cannot.

P. J. O'Rourke

An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth -- in short, materialism -- does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.

E. F. [Ernst Friedrich] Schumach

Women are an enslaved population -- the crop we harvest is children, the fields we work are houses. Women are forced into committing sexual acts with men that violate integrity because the universal religion -- contempt for women -- has as its first commandment that women exist purely as sexual fodder for men.

Andrea Dworkin

For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression.

John Malkovich

It was not I who lived, but life rather that lived me.

R. S. Thomas

My mom was always really healthy and cautious about her diet, so I'm not a big sugar guy.

Paul Walker

My dad came from Cuba when he was a teenager not speaking English. And I grew up here speaking Spanglish. That's the world in which I grew up, and that's a world in which a lot of second generation immigrants find themselves.

Ted Cruz