John Hope

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

We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale.

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

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.

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.

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