I aim to remind the warrior within us all to navigate through the unknown that we may meet the morning, improved and unenslaved.

It's not who you know, but who you are that matters most.

If it hurt me to have to give up a painting I figured it had to hurt them to write the check. That's how I came up with the price for my work.

My soul is a canvas stretched across four wooden corners and tacked with copper nails that sink into the edges of timber like teeth. My art is nothing less than my salvation.

Being an artist means seeing things and never having the ability to shut your eyes.

If you don't know what you want, others will want you for what they know! You must know yourself!

This is not going to be easy. I'm good at being bad, but I'm bad at being good. I don't know the first thing about good deeds.

I said to him, "State your business, mortal!" There was no need for me to call him "mortal" or to speak like a sixteenth-century knight. It just sounded cool.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Value work. But not any kind of work. Ask yourself "Is the work vital, strengthening my own character, or inspiring others, or helping the world?".

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.

Bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything, do not work.

I find it quite hard for me to pull off. It's so nice to have a tan and look healthy and glowing. I'd quite like to look like Karen Elson - she looks good pale. I feel like I look a bit washed out.

Will it be a great source of comfort to certain Canadian boys to know that the bullet that maimed them for life was made from Canadian nickel sold by the International Nickel Company?