All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.

You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

Life is a beautiful, magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.

My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

We think too much and feel too little.

More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.

Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But life salutes you when you make other happy.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

Work for purpose, be for others.

The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.

A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

I see the meaning of apocalypse as an unveiling of our deeper self.

C++ tries to guard against Murphy, not Machiavelli.

The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity.

In my work, I attempt to deal with the Bible as I would deal with any work of literature.

I cannot write music. I cannot play the piano.

Harold Koopowitz a son-of-a-gun! He's a drug peddler, in my opinion.

I'm black because that's the way the world sees me.