Happiness is an angel with a serious face

When I know your soul, I will paint your eyes.

With one eye you are looking at the outside world, while with the other you are looking within yourself.

What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race.

It is your duty in life to save your dream.

What I look for is neither reality nor unreality but the subconscious, the instinctive mystery of the human race.

The function of art is to struggle against obligation.

I want to be a tuneswept fiddle string that feels the master melody, and snaps.

You are not alive unless you know you are living.

Rome is not outside me, but inside me.. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beauty and harmony, all these are mine, for my thought and my work.

From that moment, and for the rest of my life, my mother's words--perceptive and many others--have helped me to be the thing she saw and named in me.

Everything in life is related to business—your hobbies, friends, family, relaxation, career, education, etc.

I wanted to be JUSTICE, LOVE, and the WRATH OF GOD all in one.

I am like the she-wolf / I broke with the pack / I fled to the mountains / Growing tired of the flatlands.

There is no dusk to be, There is no dawn that was, Only there's now, and now, And the wind in the grass.

A mere chronicle of observed events will produce only journalism; combined with a sensitive memory, it can produce art.

I've suffered too much to hide my feelings.

Once we reach our goal, we immediately feel compelled to set a higher goal. We're left in a vacuum of unfulfillment.

Quantum mechanics has explained all of chemistry and most of physics.

I have always worried about things more than I should.