They ex­pect­ed to lose. And there­fore, they lost. [..] Peo­ple who start think­ing deep dark thoughts in the mid­dle of a war start ex­pect­ing to lose.

The strong survive, but the courageous triumph.

A boy and a girl, dressed in the T-shirts and denim that are the shabby uniform of this age.

Master the rules of the game until you can play it better they can.

Some stories wait their turn to be told, others just tap you on the shoulder and insist you tell them.

A warrior with a cause is the most dangerous soldier of all

You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last.

The problem with contemporary art is that no one bothers to do the research necessary to give people what they want.

At the heart of every legend there is a grain of truth.

He who retreats lives longer.

Artists want to sell their work, sure. But they aren't out there asking questions about what people want and what they don't want, now are they?

A ‘biomass’ man does not use logical and analytical thinking

I had to be an adult, be a father without a son, so for one last moment I needed to be a son who needed his mother.

had almost forgotten the wet brush of your kisses… soft as April snowflakes

The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.

It's a rare man who can stand being around an intelligent woman, let alone married to her.

Don't think you are looking at me because you are not.

Virtue is uniform, conformable to reason, and of unvarying consistency; nothing can be added to it that can make it more than virtue; nothing can be taken from it, and the name of virtue be left.

I feel as if most people are pretty much the same within a certain class, due to the schools they attend and the way they are raised.