A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

The ages live in history through their anachronisms.

Time is a waste of money.

To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

And when wind and winter hardenAll the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.

The trick is to learn from your mistakes, and have the courage to be true to your heart.

What do you want? What do you want?...To see the world burn, and a new one be born from the ashes…

Conception is a blessed event. Fertilization is divine intervention.The development of embryo is a miraculous encounter. The birth of a child is supernatural spiritual event.

I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.

Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.

It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables.

I never went to the gym before in my life. But, at 32, I notice that my body responds negatively to bad food, so I must make double the effort.

I need to work to support my family.

To love the world is to be afflicted.