I have a very, very good relationship with 10 percent of the audience. The only purpose of art is intimacy. That's the only point.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Smiles are the language of love.

Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.

When you get older, then you feel death not at the end of the road, but death all around you, in everything. Life is saturated with death. I feel death everywhere.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

No one but a fool is always right.

The key to every human heart is love.

Don't ever let anyone or anything stop you from pushing forward with your past behind you. The land of success and happiness is big enough for everybody to reside in.

Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts.

The world is so full of a number of things I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

That's a huge subject - a writer refusing to do publicity but writing about publicity.

The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly hamonized; it is true to life.

It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.

Of course Seattle loves soccer. You can see from the men's Seattle Sounders team.

I've done illustration on the side. But other than that, comics have been my main things.

There are a lot of things that can be done within the framework of existing institutions which would be very valuable for people.