Art is a staple like bread or wine or a warm coat in winter. Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.

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.

We're gonna keep on doin' what we're doin', and we're gonna get it by all means. That's just what "ruthless" means to me. Everybody's got their own definition, but I'm ruthless with this music.

Nothing is more ridiculous than ridicule.

That Loor's a handful, she is." - Spader (Black Water)

To believe that if only we had this or that we would be happy, or to pursue any excessive desire, diverts us from seeing that happiness depends on an adequate self.

You must not think of yourself as looking at the stage from the audience. You must think of it as theatre in the round and look at it from all sides.

The fastest way to teach a child to read is to teach them to write.

All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.

It is extremely difficult to get movies that cost more than $40 million to be made these days.

Peace is not the product of terror or fear.

The ones that actually affect people who don't have enough money to change them - which is almost everybody. But that has nothing to do with the president.