“Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightening to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.”
― Chuck Close
― Chuck Close
“Hollow slogans like "Making your country great again" only lead to one result, collapse.”
― Doctor Fate, Vol. 2: Prisoners of the Past
― Doctor Fate, Vol. 2: Prisoners of the Past
“My gas tank is empty, and my stomach is empty, but my heart if full—of love. However, per gallon, I think I paid too much.”
― My love can only occupy one person at a time
― My love can only occupy one person at a time
“I have since often observed, how incongruous and irrational the common temper of mankind is, especially of youth, to that reason which ought to guide them in such cases, viz. that they are not ashamed to sin, and yet are ashamed to repent; nor ashamed of the action for which they ought justly to be esteemed fools, but are ashamed of the returning, which only can make them be esteemed wise men.”
― The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
― The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
“I treat my body like a temple. A temple of doom, but a temple nonetheless.”
― Food: A Love Story
― Food: A Love Story
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