“I don't like leaving work behind. I hate the idea that something might...” — Quentin Blake Quote

I don't like leaving work behind. I hate the idea that something might be happening on the drawing board at home that I am going to miss.

Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.

I draw every day - unless I'm being interviewed.

It was an accident of circumstance that I never married.

With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own.

I always believe that if you stick with quality and give people a chance at the time, that people eventually get on board with it. It's been my experience more than not. Once in a while, there's a show that you just can't seem to break through on.

The Orthodox hierarchy doesn't have the kind of power that high-ranking clergy do in other churches. There isn't even a worldwide governing board to hold all the various Orthodox bodies together.

Straight sized boards are models size 0-6. Plus size boards are models starting at a 10. If a size 8 girl was 5' 11 and curvy, she'd be on the plus sized board, because there's nothing in between.

In 1948 the first severe crash occurred in my life when Stalin put out his decree on 'formalism.' There was a bulletin board in the Moscow Conservatory. They posted the decree, which said Shostakovich's compositions and Prokofiev's were no longer to be played.