Art is a car, kitsch is a horse.

Because modernism has conquered art, kitsch is the savior of talent and devotion.

Kitsch is deep in its superficiality. Art is superficially deep.

To be contemporary actually means to be an artist. [But] I do not feel contemporary in my work. I perceive my work as old-fashioned. It does not have a frame of actuality in our time or locality.

If you fall asleep on horseback, the horse will stop by the rock. Art is a car. Kitsch is a horse.

I had a choice. I could become an economist & managing director. I choose to do something else. I would have become much, much richer than I am. I choose to not do that. It's that simple.

If a girl is in love with a poor guy and chooses him, then that is worst for her. If she chooses a rich man, it will be to her advantage. Everything will be fine.

We are all kitsch on our deathbeds.

I have always been astonished by hate. Revenge and hate. That is such strange human elements. I have seen a lot of that in my life. I am just as surprised each time. By revenge and hate.

It brings me back to the moment, and I want to livethe moment with everything I’ve got.

You are someone worth loving

Did you ever reach a point in your life, where you say to yourself, 'This is the best I'm ever going to look, the best I'm ever going to feel, the best I'm ever going to do,' and it ain't that great?

Life does often get in the way of one's reading.

If we (Lauren and Jim) ever get married, we're just going to put helmets on, run into each other from a hundred yards, and smash together like rams

I'm a Christian, and those beliefs occasionally come out in the books.

Tradition is a very powerful force.

We are what we believe ourselves to be

The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving.

Often you need to take some risk, but it must be a realistic risk, you can't take a crazy risk.