Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle, almost nothing at all.

Reality is infinitely diverse, compared with even the subtlest conclusions of abstract thought, and does not allow of clear-cut and sweeping distinctions. Reality resists classification.

...everything defiled and degraded. What cannot man live through! Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.

Surround yourselves with trustworthy people. If you don't, all the weaponry and tactics in the world can't save you.

I like characters who don't change, who don't learn from their mistakes.

I loved getting to investigate the grey areas of morality.

In family life people almost always adjust themselves to misfortune. They make a bed of it and hope makes them accept that bed, however hard it is.

Among the numerous advantages promised by a well-constructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction.

I'd rather work with someone who likes what I do than create something for the red carpet that won't make me happy.

Humor is the most important thing in life. It trumps everything else and it's the only thing that helps me deal with everything else.

If you're a painter and you want people to know who you are and recognize your work, you've got to build some long-term value.

I keep wanting to crawl back into the womb.