Love is a fiend, a fire, a heaven, a hell Where pleasure, pain, and sad repentance dwell
Only art means anything.
Books, Cats, Life is Good.
There are so many things we've been brought up to believe that it takes you an awfully long time to realize that they aren't you.
It's well we cannot hear the screams we make in other people's dreams.
If something doesn't creep into a drawing that you're not prepared for, you might as well not have drawn it.
My mission in life is to make everybody as uneasy as possible. I think we should all be as uneasy as possible, because that's what the world is like.
Arkansas is really, really nice. Its got the nature feel.
And it's kind of my own fault too, in the sense that I've used my own life as a literary device so much. I think people feel very comfortable reviewing the idea of me, as opposed to what I've actually written. I find that most of the time, when people write about one of my books, they're really just writing about what they think I may or may not represent, as sort of this abstract entity. Is that unfair? Not really. If I put myself in this position where I'm going to kind of weave elements of memoir into almost everything, well, I suppose that's going to happen.
Aviation seems almost a gift from heaven to those Western nations who were already the leaders of their era, strengthening their leadership, their confidence, their dominance over other peoples.
I was the chairman of the Budget Committee and the lead architect the last time it happened in Washington, and when we did it we had great economic growth, we cut taxes, and we had a big surplus.