The function of art is to struggle against obligation.

When I know your soul, I will paint your eyes.

With one eye you are looking at the outside world, while with the other you are looking within yourself.

What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race.

It is your duty in life to save your dream.

Happiness is an angel with a serious face

What I look for is neither reality nor unreality but the subconscious, the instinctive mystery of the human race.

I want to be a tuneswept fiddle string that feels the master melody, and snaps.

You are not alive unless you know you are living.

Rome is not outside me, but inside me.. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beauty and harmony, all these are mine, for my thought and my work.

Shrug off the no’s – they are temporary. This is your world. In your world there is only yes.

Sometimes we called one another by our future doctor names. We did it partly to be funny, but mostly because we liked it when people did it back to us.

Soul of a victim tends to prove her innocence.

If you want to kill time try working it to death.

God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.

The injunction to be nice is used to deflect criticism and stifle the legitimate anger of dissent.

Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.

The best and only authentic book written on the sixties underground.

To use a telling phrase of the Reverend Martin Luther King, we can say that we have defaulted on a promissory note and now is the time to honor it.

Everyone who works with love and with intelligence finds in the very sincerity of his love for nature and art a kind of armor against the opinions of other people.