"Most novelists I know went through a period of intense self-examination and self-loathing after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. I certainly did."

“If we have to use force, it is because we are America.”

“If you have it, it is for life. It is a disease for which there is no cure. You will go on riding even after they have to haul you on a comfortable wise old cob, with feet like inverted buckets and a back like a fireside chair... when I can't ride anymore, I shall still keep horses as long as I can hobble about with a bucket and a wheelbarrow. When I can't hobble, I shall roll my wheelchair out to the fence of the field where my horses graze, and watch them.”

“If I can make programmes when I'm 95, that would be fine. But I would think I'll have had enough by then.”

“Boy, I'd hate to shoot on tape or disc or whatever the hell they're talking about. I love film.”

“At times inactivity is preferable to mindless functioning.”

Source : Jenny Holzer (1983). “Truisms and essays”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

“How happy I would be if I could give figurative expression to the unconscious feeling that often murmurs so softly and sweetly within me.”

Source : Diary entry in 1898. "Painting in the Twentieth Century, an Analysis of the Artists and Their Work". Book by Werner Haftmann, p. 82, 1966.

“With more than 1,300 sites of care, VA operates the largest integrated health care system in the county”

“Now is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream.”