That’s the power you possess as an artist. To find and express your own unique message.

Life is a desert of shifting sand dunes. Unpredictable. Erratic. Harmony changes into dissonance, the immediate outlives the profound, esoteric becomes cliched. And vice versa.

A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers.

Destiny is a stubborn maiden. She likes herself just the way she is.

Jealousy knows neither morality nor empathy.

The conversation ran as fluidly as the tea out of the samovar’s crooked nose.

I desire to know you. Every breath of your heart, every fleeting look on your face, the rhythm of your joys, and the melancholy of your sorrows.

The external evils are nothing compared to the evils that we harbor in our souls.

Evil tempts every soul, but a weak soul tempts evil.

My eyes still swelled with tears, but my heart was dancing the lazgi.

Music is not in the notes but in what is between them.

In a strong relationship, you should love your companion more than you need them.

I'm done with those

There are, in fact, a cognitive itchand a divination using the human formwhile being alive, when life is not alive in its own senseexcept for the eternity.

We have minds that are equipped for certainty, linearity and short-term decisions, that must instead make long-term decisions in a non-linear, probabilistic world.

I'm ready to take on different selves and experiment and see what happens.

And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.

God doesn't move until we move first.

I'm never at my worst because even at my lowest, its a learning experience. It's something that I'll bounce ideas off. I can take negatives and flip them to positives at all times.

It is a miracle how God has so long preserved His Book! How great and glorious it is to have the Word of God!

We did all the standard camp numbers: "Down By The Aegean," "I Am My Own Great-Great-Great-Great Grandpa," "This Land is Minos's Land.