It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.

If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.

What fire does not destroy, it hardens

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

To be diligent means to be serious and devoted to the work of God

I Respect A Man Who Reads More Books Than I Do In A Day.

I'm a very physical person. I'm very tactile. I wrestled in college, so a lot of my communication with the world comes through physicality - what I take in and what I put out there.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

A lot of artists make art for five years, some artists make art for ten years, a few make art for fifteen: very few do it until they die.

It is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws.

I definitely feel, when I'm wearing the costume, that I could scare people and hurt them.

We are what we are because of the hard work, insights and achievements of countless others.

When you love, love as if the person is a god, not less than that. Never love a woman as a woman and never love a man as a man.

We are the ones looking out for the middle class. Who do think pays for the endless expansion of government? Its middle class taxpayers. Our reforms protect middle class taxpayers.