I don't want to see him alone. He says things that annoy me. He gives me good advice.

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.

If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.

What fire does not destroy, it hardens

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

One more secret smile. One more shared laugh. One more electric kiss. Finding him was like finding someone I didn't know I was searching for.

I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life.

Nonviolence is the weapon of the strong.

I never excelled at one sport or had a very strong passion for anything other than wrestling and bodybuilding.

It ain't that I'm too big to listen to the rumors, It's just that I'm too damn big to pay attention to 'em.

I believe that music should be grown on trees, to be plucked like a fruit without the extravagance of harvest.

There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.

I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself.

It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth, however hard.

There's people trying to tell me what to do, but I'm not like some marketing scam.