The writer ... an athlete required to break the four-minute mile every morning.

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.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

My life is filled with ineffable miracles.

Victory - a matter of staying power.

A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.

We in the media are just people with all of people's faults.

And I used to listen to a lot of jazz.

Everything beautiful that we create in life requires a leap of faith.

Thanks are justly due for things got without purchase. [Lat., Gratia pro rebus merito debetur inemtis.]

Timing really is nearly everything. And what it isn't, circumstance makes up for.