What is the secret behind the emotional effect of great works of painting? What laws govern their beauty? Delacroix said that being a feast for the eyes is the prime merit of a good painting. I seek the timeless, the quintessential in painting.

Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so.

Andrea Dworkin

Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.

Victor Hugo

Know how sublime a thing is to suffer and be strong.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain, After reading his ow

Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.

Cardinal Richelieu

There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.

Knut Hamsun

The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that.

Nicholas D. Kristof

See, winners embrace hard work.

Lou Holtz

I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence.

Kristin Hersh

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Robert Frost

Mathematics is the queen of sciences and arithmetic is the queen of mathematics

Carl Friedrich Gauss

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's. She changes it more often.

Oliver Herford