"I know myself well enough to be positive that I couldn't have lived through a whole year, or even a whole week, witho…"

"Harold was tops as a cavalier; every day he sent me more gardenias than most people go to the grave with."

"What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liqu…"

"The women who take husbands not out of love but out of greed, to get their bills paid, to get a fine house and clothe…"

"Your heart often knows things before your mind does, and I think from this time on, psychologically speaking, I was a…"

"I was just recalling the pet saying of an old madam named Vicki Shaw." "Oh? And what was that?" "Too many cooks," I s…"

"Grace is God’s radical, unconditional love for all humanity and all creation."

"Narrative is telling a story, I’m providing a situation. And it's in time, right now. Paintings are not in time. Thes…"

"On the same canvas. Yes. Well, that's essentially what I'm doing. And I have been tempted to say that I make history …"

"No, I wasn't interested in being Irish. And I wasn't interested in being in the Irish—in the sense of their mindset a…"