"I'm pretty darn happy with my day job."

“That we can be e pluribus Unum - out of one, many”

“The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible.”

“Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still write letters that kill.”

“If you're a serious actor, you wouldn't put yourself up for one of those shows in case you got bumped off the first week and all your colleagues saw it.”

Source : "The Turning of the Paige". The Times, June 04, 2007.

“What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the history of mankind, the geological history of the Earth or the beginning and end of the manifest cosmos.”

Source : "Anselm Kiefer's tragic works carry traces of humor" by Kenneth Baker, www.sfgate.com. January 22, 2012.

“You don't hit anything on the backswing, so why rush it?”

“Like everybody, my views on many issues have changed as I have gotten older.”

Source : "Bob McDonnell corruption trial: the failure of a 'traditional American family'" by Tom McCarthy, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2014.

“Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.”