Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

The cyclone ends. The sun returns; the lofty coconut trees lift up their plumes again; man does likewise. The great anguish is over; joy has returned; the sea smiles like a child.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.

I have come to an unalterable decision - to go and live forever in Polynesia. Then I can end my days in peace and freedom, without thoughts of tomorrow and this eternal struggle against idiots.

Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.

Art is either revolution or plagiarism

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

Oh yes! he loved yellow, this good Vincent, this painter from Holland - those glimmers of sunlight rekindled his soul, that abhorred the fog, that needed the warmth.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Take care not to step on the foot of a learned idiot. His bite is incurable.

It is always wrong to enrich yourself at the expense of others.

There is a big difference between being lonely and being alone. I am alone when I write, but I am rarely lonely.

If Todd [Willingham] was guilty of anything, it was just his self-preservation. He got up and ran out of the house and then thought about the children after the fact.

The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.

My wife obviously would like to have her husband right next to her. I keep telling her inshaAllah we will be together in paradise.

We should be able to be ourselves. Make a political stand if you want to

If you have a song to sing, who are you not to open your mouth and sing to the world?

My writing has always been a rather non-linear process. I've found if I get something down, I can listen to it and other things start to come.

I have made many serious statements - I just can't remember any of them. I guess they mustn't have been very important.

I don't think I've ever put it in words before. But daddy took a gun and ended his life and took momma's with him.