Laugh now, cry later.

Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.

When I understood that neither parents, nor family, nor friends, nor anyone in the world could offer me anything but pain, insults and wounds, I resolved to stop living for the world.

No, I'm putting it away, trying to buy a house for my family. The goal is to use the money to move into a big house, so my daughter can have a garden.

I like stories about supervillains. They teach children that you can accomplish great things even when the whole world is against you.

A high self-esteem having artist works hard to be understood. A low self-esteem having artist works hard to be agreed with.

Morality, for all the conditioning to which the human mind has been and is subjected, is always a personal choice in the last analysis.

Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.

The good man does not grieve that other people do not recognize his merits. His only anxiety is lest he should fail to recognize theirs.

When the days start to get shorter, I want to be in some nice brick building on the East Coast with the lights glowing in the windows. When the daylight starts changing, I want to be out West.