"Mickalene [Thomas] is an artist that I have admired for a long time. So much of her work inspires me - I spend time looking at her work when I'm writing. I feel like we're working toward the same themes, and I see our work in conversation, whether we know it or not."

“[I attach] little importance to physical size. I don't feel the least humble before the vastness of the heavens. The stars may be large, but they cannot think or love; and these are qualities which impress me far more than size does.”

“My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing but despite them I see that there's a consistency that holds out, but is hard to define.”

Source : Robert Carleton Hobbs, Lee Krasner (1999). “Lee Krasner”, Harry N. Abrams

“Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more.”

“Judge your success by the degree that you're enjoying peace, health, and love.”

“He [Louis Brandeis] would have not had any patience with that great debate which you're right to kind of signal between Justice Scalia and Justice Alito about do you need a physical trespass into the home or onto the carriage in order to trigger the values of the Fourth Amendment.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com

“I have never met a man [in the military], in or out of uniform, who ever said, "Let's use the missiles." They are even more terrified that the Bishops, because a great many of them don't expect to go to Heaven, which at least the Bishops do.”

“I'm only a poor corrupt official.”

Source : "Fictional character: Captain Renault". "Casablanca", www.imdb.com. 1942.

“The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others.”