Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.

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.

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.

Misery is the only thing in the world that has no end or edge.

He was Death, and he'd ridden in on a pale horse...

At times people who are extremely sad become lighthearted for the most trivial reasons, merely to obtain the relief furnished by the exactly opposite condition.

Consciousness is part of our nature as sentient beings, but doesn’t mean we are aware at a particular moment. By perceiving our consciousness - becoming conscious of consciousness, we become aware.

UGH. Boys. They're like French class--no matter how much I study, I'll never be fluent in the language.

Aral the Jack, formerly the noble Aral Kingslayer, is the best kind of hero.

To have committed every crime but that of being a father.

Madman! Look through my eyes if thou hast none of thine own.

I think books should have secrets, like people do.

The way Conway Morris goes about biting the hand that once fed him would make a shoal of piranha seem decorous.

There is implanted in every man, naturally, a strong desire for progress.