“People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become, and they pay for it, very simply, by the lives they lead.”

“Now when I bore people at parties, they think it’s their fault.”

“If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.”

“Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.”

“I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.”

“The life and love we create is the life and love we live.”

“I think there are two keys to being creatively productive. One is not being daunted by one’s fear of failure, the second is sheer perseverance.”

“Conservatives cannot govern well for the same reason that vegetarians cannot prepare a world-class boeuf bourguignon: If you believe that what you are called upon to do is wrong, you are unlikely to do it very well.”

“It’s easy for any of us to fall victim to our biases if our thoughts are rarely questioned by people who look, think and experience life different from us.”

“There are no atheists in foxholes and there are no libertarians in financial crises.”

“To see what is in front of one’s nose requires a constant struggle.”

“A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.”

“First of all, I don’t see America having problems.”

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”

“Why is it called ‘patriotism’ when Americans chant U-S-A, but called ‘nationalism’ when folks from other countries chant for their homeland?”

“The Moral Majority Christians and the supply-side neocons always represented two of the worst and most vile impulses in the American character – mass, willful ignorance and total, shameless greed.”

“When the state is corrupt then the laws are most multiplied.”

“A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.”

“An error is not a mistake, unless it is not corrected.”

“The practice of art isn’t to make a living. It’s to make your soul grow.”