"Bad day?" "Every day is a bad day here." "Eh, this place isnt't so terrible." "How are you always cheerful?" "Alcohol," he says with a sideways grin."

“When NBC News first assigned me to the Barack Obama campaign, I must confess my knees quaked a bit....I wondered if I was up to the job. I wondered if I could do the campaign justice.”

“But I've strayed so far from normal now, I'll never find my way back. And the truth is, I no longer want to.”

“It's either the Amendment or this Confederate peace. You cannot have both.”

Source : "Fictional character: William Seward". "Lincoln", 2012.

“I think it is important to maintain your personality, your roots, very important.”

“Life is a puzzle. Every piece fits together to create who we are, what we do, how we feel. Every experience shapes us into who we will eventually become.”

“The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.”

“I think one of the things that I took from Mel [Bochner] specifically was his ability to look at oneself and one's relationship to the history of art and the practice of art at arm's length, the ability to sort of clinically and coldly remove oneself from the picture and to see it simply as a set of rules, habits, systems, moving parts.”

“I have a group of people, about 40, in a local church in Surrey in England, who pray for me regularly.”