“Care not who is richer or more learned than thou, if none be more generous and loving.”

“If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.”

“As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.”

“The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is”

“I love the French and Italian church paintings from the Middle Ages. But I'm also interested to learn more about who was the first to make the leap from religious art to secular. That couldn't have been a small feat. Who was brave enough to say, " You know what? Enough of Jesus. I'mma paint me this here bowl of fruit and then I'mma paint my girlfriend... naked!”

“Normally it makes me really happy to see, not just that they’re in love but that love like that is possible. Right now, though, I just kind of want to throw water on them.”

“I've nursed a lifelong love affair with movement, straying ever farther from those I love most. But somewhere along the way, it dawned on me that I was always traveling with family - because the act of travel, to the extent that it separates us from our relatives, also extends, manifests, multiplies, and completes family.”