I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.

I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.

The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell.

Work alone will efface the footsteps of work.

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.

An artist's career always begins tomorrow.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

I am not arguing with you - I am telling you.

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.

If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.

It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.

The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.

A man of strength and wisdom, John Paul became an inspiration to generations of both Catholics and non-Catholics throughout the world by encouraging freedom, promoting peace and respecting all faiths.

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

It's wonderful to have the most important thing in the world there first thing in the morning. And especially in this business, where the opportunity to think everything is about you is there every day, now I really know that it isn't all about me.

Bartending took the romanticism out of drinking.

My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.

Buying insurance is no one's idea of fun. And it's especially easy to berate something as funky-sounding as writing checks to defend our neighborhoods against apartment-size rocks from space. But this is one insurance pitch that makes perfect sense. Ask the dinos.

I remember asking one of my agents, like, 'Hey, is this Instagram thing good for models, or is it bad?' And they said, 'No. Keep doing it. Heidi Klum, or whoever, has millions of followers, and that doesn't hurt them.' So, I kept with it. I think it definitely helped.

I'm not in demand. I'm all washed up.

The World, form'd out of Chaos. Man is made.

The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.

I had always thought, for 'Roman Empire,' I would love to do the death of Marcus Aurelius in the snow. One morning I woke up, and it was really snowing.

I couldn't do my show without spending 12 years on the streets of Humboldt Park. It made me a better interrogator. Still, if they had taken me out of my squad car and gave me a show, I would've been terrible. But on 'Springer,' the spotlight was on Jerry and I got to grow up within the show.

I'll be writing essays long after I've stopped writing fiction. There is this unusually broad range in the non-fiction, but if you look at what I'm capable of as a novelist, I'm more limited.

We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

I want my life and my marriage to look less like the world and more like Christ.

Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything.

I always have scarves handy; they're my indulgence. I buy them at an L.A. shop called Lost & Found. I'll spray one with loads of my Byredo Gypsy Water perfume, put it on and be like, 'Ah, this feels good.'

Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.

Starbucks is not an advertiser; people think we are a great marketing company, but in fact we spend very little money on marketing and more money on training our people than advertising.

I give so much credit to the 'Up' team who created appointment viewing on the weekends for us and some of the smartest conversations on television.

I love working with Gary Sinise.

We still have that same burn, to get that same kind of laughs. So whether the studio wants us to or not, we're going to do it. The money is just a byproduct of coming out with good stuff. Our whole thing is building that rapport with the audience.

I'm hosting a quiz show, but I never considered myself a game show host.