I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.

Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]

The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.

There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.

Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.

Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.

Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.

No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.

A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.

One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.

Misery is the only thing in the world that has no end or edge.

We are sometimes hurt mostly or only not by what happened or is happening to us but by being felt sorry for.

You see, one of the best things about reading is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading.

Happiness is a choice, but grief is a certainty.

Do you really think all angels are sweet and gentle? You must have forgot that the front lines of the War in Heaven were littered with bold women that had something to say.

The circus comes as close to being the world in microcosm as anything I know; in a way, it puts all the rest of show business in the shade.

It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure.

There is no need for fur - since there are compassionate alternatives.

Heath Slater, or the chick from Wendy's

If you want to scare people, you talk about evil.