If you are not envied, you are not enviable.

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

In war, truth is the first casualty.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

The air is Zeus, Zeus earth, and Zeus the heaven, Zeus all that is, and what transcends them all.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

Perception is reality in the absence of fact

A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.

My paintings and sculptures, at first glance, may appear to be purely aesthetic; closer up, they are not. They hold a feeling of tentativeness, combined with a sense of arrival.

Listen to her voice, don't look at her.

All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.

What is taken away is greater than the sum of what was there. This may not be mathematically possible; but it is emotionally possible.

The very nature of limiting something from an infinite to moments in time creates distortion; analog recording methods create all kinds of distortion, they're just not digital distortion.

I'm always moving forward creatively and don't like stalling, trying to find the perfect snare drum sound.

Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler.

I've never believed it's really so important that you conform to the ways of the system in order to beat the system. I think that the system follows a great deal.