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“I have always kept ducks, even as a child, and the colours of their plumage, in particular the dark green and snow white, seemed to me the only possible answer to the questions that are on my mind.”
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“I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which has been heaped upon it.”
Source : Charles Phillips, John Finlay (barrister-at-law.), Robert Emmet (1820). “The Speeches of Charles Phillip: Esquire, Delivered at the Bar and on Various Occasions, in Ireland and England”, p.272
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“That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.”
Source : "Garry Trudeau: What a Long, Strange Strip It’s Been". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. January/february 2007. 
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“Love is stealthy hiding under ribs.”
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“I perform in art time and in real time, and you can't tell the difference - no one knows how to separate a real act from an art act in my work. When I lived on the street for a year, people only knew that I was homeless. They didn't know that I was an artist doing a piece. I have to use real time in my work. I do, however, have to find a subtle way of documenting real time, in order for people to have a response. That means punching into a work clock every hour in the case of one piece.”
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“The legislator is an indispensable guardian of our freedom. It is true that great executives have played a powerful role in the development of civilization, but such leaders appear sporadically, by chance. They do not always appear when they are most needed. The great executives have given inspiration and push to the advancement of human society, but it is the legislator who has given stability and continuity to that slow and painful progress.”
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“Anarchism has a broad back, like paper it endures anything,”
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“Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school.”
Source : "J.C. Watts: Bringing Diversity and Faith to Washington". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.
