After all, the world is still great.

Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]

The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.

There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.

I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.

Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.

Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.

Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.

No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.

A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.

One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.

The cigar has been smoked out, and we are the ashes.

Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning.

I've done shows with orchestras, and I like writing with orchestras.

Evangelical Christians are not sincere. It is all about making money.

All the survivors of the war had reached their homes and so put the perils of battle and the sea behind them.

If you want the truth, I'll tell you the truth. Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you.

I didn't realize then what a privilege that was: to be bored with your best friend; to have time to waste.

Sometimes when you're treated unfairly it makes you stronger and more determined. I admire that kind of strength. People who have it take a stand and put their blood and soul into what they believe.

My life was incoherent to me. I felt it quivering, spitting out broken teeth.

My friends were poor, but honest, so's my love.