It's so easy to love. The only hard thing is to be loved. [Vincent Van Gogh]

Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]

The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.

There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.

I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.

Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.

Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.

Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.

No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.

A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.

One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.

How different her life would be if Orrin hadn’t contacted her in July. She wouldn’t be embroiled in kidnapping, espionage, and murder.

I have to force myself to look away from those irresistible dimples

Why you keep telling me to be careful, Old man ?Your stupidity doesn't deserve my sacrifice, Kiddo.

Literature is man's exploration of man by artificial light, which is better than natural light because we can direct it where we want.

I think Black intellectuals see too deeply. That's the problem. It's a cause of anxiety, because we see things differently.

You're kind of numb after 50 shots to the head.

Truth and nonviolence are as old as the hills.

The way forward for Africa is investment.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem

God's ability to clean things up is infinitely greater than our ability to mess things up.