"My work is an exploration of the self. I've always been concerned with how I'm living and how that reflects in the painting."

“I'm a dad, and that's really important to me, and I realize now that I'm a dad that it's a major part of my identity.”

“It is the immigrant hordes who keep this country alive, the waves of them arriving year after year.... Who believes in America more than the people who run down the gangplank and kiss the ground?”

“Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.”

“The finishing stroke of all sorrow.”

“Social media is an amazing tool, but it's really the face-to-face interaction that makes a long-term impact.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“And I am a weapon of massive consumption And it's not my fault, it's how I'm programmed to function.”

Source : Song: The Fear, Album: It's Not Me, It's You, 2009

“Christian education is a bomb with a long fuse - it takes a while to go off.”

“That's what we're all doing, all the time, whether we know it or not. Whether we like it or not. Creating something on the spur of the moment with the materials at hand. We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.”

Source : Alan Arkin (2011). “An Improvised Life: A Memoir”, p.191, Da Capo Press