I discovered there was an endless source of robust enjoyment in trifling with psychiatrists.

It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.

Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses.

I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.

I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.

Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.

Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece

You have to be an artist and a madman...

... she had painted her lips and was holding in her hollowed hands a beautiful, banal, Eden-red apple.

For some reason, I kept seeing it—it trembled and silkily glowed on my damp retina—a radiant child of twelve, sitting on a threshold, "pinging" pebbles at an empty can.

I had possessed her - and she never knew it.

My black-and-white work is more of a celebration, and the color work became more of a critique of society.

Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.

I'm horrified to admit that I just love Salinger. I was devastated to find out that other people feel the same way.

It is only doubt that creates. It is only the minority that counts.

Maidens! why should you worry in choosing whom you shall marry? Choose whom you may, you will find you have got somebody else.

I think it's very good to have regrets, to learn how to live with them.

I didn't know how...deep love ran, how it was in your blood, not your heart, and how that same blood pumped through your veins your whole life.

With the Eucharist, therefore, heaven comes down to earth, the tomorrow of God descends into the present and it is as if time remains embraced by divine eternity.

To me there is an intimate relationship between austerity and more lush aesthetics. They're two faces of the same coin.

Suretyship (Dogma) is the precursor of ruin.