There's no love without pain.

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.

He said her name, repeatedly, so that she never lost the sound of his voice around it. So that every time someone called her name, she would be able to hear only Aman Erum.

Levana's face was fiercely beautiful. Breathtaking in her viciousness.

Longevity conquers scandal every time.

For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.

I'd like to be writing songs for other people - I just like writing songs.

Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture.

I am sure that Senator Clinton would make a good President. I have no doubt that Senator Clinton would make a good President.

The idea that somehow people of African descent are not part of the same species as whites was accepted by European men of science in the early modern period.

[Touring] is not necessarily a priority. It's just a part of who I am as a performer. That's obviously why I'm doing it; why I'm in this business is part of me has to perform.

The chrysanthemums' astringent fragrance comes Each year to disguise the clanking mechanism Of machine within machine within machine.