Approach any room with the goal of making it the most attractive and comfortable, the room you want to live in the most.

You must find the passion, an unrelenting passion.

Passion is what you need to be good, an unforgiving passion.

It's the will that gives us the ability to focus

There is a wilderness we walk aloneHowever well-companioned

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

Only in art can you make something that no one wants and still be considered successful.

I drink to stay warm, and to kill selected memories

Every single day I wake up in the morning, and I wonder if this is some kind of amazing dream that's gonna end all of a sudden. And, you know, I'm gonna wake up and be somewhere else.

I feel an almost overwhelming interest in the methods of daylight abduction employed by the modern youth.

Education is not the means of showing people how to get what they want. Education is an exercise by means of which enough men, it is hoped, will learn to want what is worth having.

They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.

Smart people underestimate the ordinarity of ordinary people.