If you throw stones on my way to stumble and I fall, you try to put extra care when passing my way, lest you stumble and fall.

Religion isn't the opium of the people, it's the hypocrisy.

Sow but don't rush to gather the fruits

Better a friend to all his weight in gold.

The best incentive for an artist are the harshest criticism

The best way to feel family is being part of it.

Sometimes animals are more human than people and other times people are more animal than animals

Sometimes animals are more human than men and other times men are more animals than animals

The easiest way is not always the best way

Many great failures lead to the ultimate success

Who is the most worthy of admiration, musician or audience?Probably the musician will tell that his audience and the musician that his audience

It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.

Only what you choose is what makes you.

There's a strange something, which without a brain Fools feel, and which e'en wise men can't explain, Planted in man, to bind him to that earth, In dearest ties, from whence he drew his birth.

Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none

There's a difference between violence and senseless violence.

You don't go after what's mine. Now be a good boy and gut yourself." -Xhex, Lover Mine.

My interest in painting is recording things. I think of myself as almost a documentary filmmaker... I've gotten into some curious situations.

One age cannot be completely understood if all the others are not understood. The song of history can only be sung as a whole.

I was born by the river, in a little tent, and just like the river I've been running ever since.

I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know.