Grant me paradise in this world; I'm not so sure I'll reach it in the next.

Beautiful colours can be bought in the shops on the Riatlo, but good drawing can only be bought from the casket of the artist's talent with patient study and nights with out sleep.

You can never do too much drawing.

Friendship, as has been said, consists in a full commitment of the will to another person with a view to that person's good.

Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.

I've come to seduce you." His pupils dilated as his gaze heated. She smiled. He hadn't been surprised at her presence, but he'd been very surprised at the reason. He held up a palm. "By all means.

I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.

Keep in mind that every single generation before us has worked under the assumption that they possessed all the major tools for understanding the universe, and they were all wrong, without exception.

Other than my memory being a bit woolly and my knees being a bit creaky, I don't really think there's anything I can't do.

People learn twenty-five percent from their teacher, twenty-five percent from listening to themselves, twenty-five percent from their friends, and twenty-five percent from time.

I always tried to do cool things.

You know, tigers are very unpredictable.

You grow up in a Sicilian household, becoming an actor is not a big leap.