Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.

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.

Sometimes my own darkness scares me.

If for every well-intended prayer uttered in hopes of making the world a better place, there was instead a good deed accomplished, the world might look as though those prayers had been answered.

Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.

In art, vitality is the chaotic initial state; beauty is the cosmic final state.

At this time let us be exceedingly mindful that bearing one another's burdens and sharing one another's suffering is integral to being members of Christ's body.

Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.

I thought we talked things out!' 'Yes, and you listened very carefully to every word you had to say.

When you are a writer the assist-to-turnover ratio...there are a lot more turnovers than assists. It's just the nature of the beast.

The president made very clear to leaders in Congress from right after the election that repealing and replacing Obamacare will be the first priority of this administration.

This issue has brought out the ugly in our society.