"A quitter never wins and a winner never quits."

“My views have changed as much as the world, and more precisely, the world of art. You have to remember that all my criticisms of the institution were done directly from the world I was in and my analysis of it. Many things that I said about the omnipotence of the museums, for example, are today almost obsolete. In fact, the museum and the institution drastically lost their power by the pure fact that they disseminated by thousands around the world.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.”

“Now I won't have to worry about the new series making it or not.”

“In the under-wood and the over-wood there is murmur and trill this day, For every bird is in lyric mood, And the wind will have its way.”

Source : Clinton Scollard (1916). “Ballads, Patriotic & Romantic”

“It is nearly impossible to hate anyone whose story you know.”

Source : "The Middle of Things: Advice for Young Writers" by Andrew Solomon, www.newyorker.com. March 11, 2015.

“In ten Muslim countries you can get the death penalty just for being gay. If they were chopping the heads off of gay people in the Vatican, wouldn't there be a greater outcry among liberals?”

“When you have seen the errors in which you live, you will understand the good that we have done you by coming to your land by order of his Majesty the King of Spain. Our Lord permitted that your pride should be brought low and that no Indian should be able to offend a Christian.”

“I'm a sucker for fries. It's definitely one of my biggest vices. My biggest savory vice for sure.”