"[I realized] I can’t tell your story, I can only tell mine. I can’t be you, I can only be me."

"Political people don’t seem to understand art…It’s not what they’re trying to do. And if it is, let them do that. Don…"

"I was encouraged to look around me and to paint what I saw. I painted my story, and it had a lot of angles to it. I w…"

"…Quilting was a method of artistic expression that could also be used to cover people, to keep them warm, but which a…"

"Enjoying an extraordinary knowledge of languages (ancient and modern), literature, and art, by his cultured personali…"

"He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fie…"

"In the younger days of the Republic there lived in the county of —— two men, who were admitted on all hands to be the…"

"It is said that a hundred gamecocks will live in perfect harmony together it you do not put a hen with them; and so i…"

"All the knowing ones were consulted as to the issue, and they all agreed, to a man, in one of two opinions: either th…"

"Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fi…"