They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent.

Let me be candid, my party is full of racists

Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces.

All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what.

This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.

And it is not necessary to have great things to do. I turn my little omelette in the pan for the love of God.

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

I would describe my work as expressionist. The expressionist point of view is stressing your own feelings about something.

To worship God in truth is to recognize Him for being who He is, and to recognize ourselves for what we are.

If I don't have anything to do all day, I might not even put my pants on.

We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.

My first reaction, every time I delve into an episode of history that I don’t know very much about, is anger that my teachers never taught me about it.

If you follow the rules, it's your own fault.

If you want to play piano, you just gotta love piano, and I loved the way that music sounded from the beginning. Always did - everything about an instrument I loved.

Religion is something that gets hammered in early, and never really goes away. And has powers to move which go beyond anything rational.

You never undertake a project because you think other people will like it - because that way lies madness - but rather because you believe in it.

Slice and Dice, Slice and Dice

We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.

Um," Grover said. "Percy?" "Yeah?" "I thought you'd want to know." "Yeah?" "Cerberus? He's saying we've got ten seconds to pray to the god of our choice.After that...well...he's hungry.

The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.

I hope that some day scientists can be considered heroes again, instead of Paris Hilton.