I have done so many things in my life, " she said to the mirror. "Evil things, perhaps. But never unattentively, never wastefully...was I wrong?

Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?

Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory.

I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.

People only see in us the contemptible skirt-fever which rules our actions but completely miss the beauty-hunger underlying it.

Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.

There is a long time in me between knowing and telling.

Time is like a river of fleeting events and its current is strong as soon as something comes into sight it is swept past us and something else takes its place and that too will be swept away.

You make decisions and choices, and you're never going to know if they're the ideal choices, but you make them and you make the most of them.

The musty smell, the bugs, the lonliness, this room, which is part of the street outside-this is all I want from life.

It's not the truth that you know, but the truth that you obey that matters.

Wherever injustice occurs, we all need to be concerned.

Don't dwell on mistakes, because it will only cause more.

I would never finish a painting if I didnt have a deadline.

My religion is to be alive from LOVE.

I think the great sketch shows, like 'Python' and 'Mr. Show,' they didn't stick around for very long. There's something kind of cool about that.