How easy to be free. How strong we are when we have nothing to lose.

Life is a desert of shifting sand dunes. Unpredictable. Erratic. Harmony changes into dissonance, the immediate outlives the profound, esoteric becomes cliched. And vice versa.

A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers.

Destiny is a stubborn maiden. She likes herself just the way she is.

Jealousy knows neither morality nor empathy.

I desire to know you. Every breath of your heart, every fleeting look on your face, the rhythm of your joys, and the melancholy of your sorrows.

The external evils are nothing compared to the evils that we harbor in our souls.

Evil tempts every soul, but a weak soul tempts evil.

My eyes still swelled with tears, but my heart was dancing the lazgi.

Music is not in the notes but in what is between them.

The hurt is the place where the music enters you.

The less they know, the more they know it all.

Everybody else is doing it is an excuse, not a reason. It could be that everybody else isn't, but the Devil is introducing you to the few that are in the hopes that he can fool you.

You may want to change the place or the direction of the Moon or you may do something more practical: You accept the Moon as it is!

Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.

Gifted leadership occurs when heart and head--feeling and thought--meet. These are the two winds that allow a leader to soar.

Aspirin is so good for roses, brandy for sweet peas, and a squeeze of lemon-juice for the fleshy flowers, like begonias.

There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.

That machine took my money!' I said. 'I must have revenge!

If you're making a film, the one thing I've learned is you have to pick somebody really well-known to make it relevant.

Cooking is an art, but you eat it too.