John Hope

If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing.

Dissatisfaction with possession and achievement is one of the requisites to further achievement.

I grew up thinking that you were supposed to read and write all your waking hours.

I always dreamed of writing in an orchestral context. But when you finish a piece, you want to hear it. So we played everything with Phish.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.

The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement.