To make an artwork good enough to enter people's hearts is like what ancient Chinese called 'making stone into gold.' It is alchemy.

You do not have to be alone. The world never inflicts loneliness upon us. That is something we choose or reject by ourselves.

The moon in all her immaculate purity hung in the sky, laughing at this world of dust. She congratulated me for my carefully considered maneuvers and invited me to share in her eternal solitude.

Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you.

It is good to be taught humility when we are young. If we do not exeperience pain as children, we will cause pain as adults.

I know that no matter how lonely I get, I'll never be truly alone again. Our loved ones don't leave us. They just move out of sight for a while, and wait...in the shades.

Better not to start down a wrong path at all than head down it in the hope of making a detour when something better came along.

If he turned his back on humanity now, it would be forever.

The demons were scary, but girls - Well, girls are really terrifying

Art that has depth makes a strong impact on the spirit, emotion, mood and thoughts of a human being.

I'm starting to understand that fear is like cancer - you can beat it back, but if it returns, it can be worse than ever.

The price of living seems to always be death.

When you cannot find a pill for it, try taking a full dosage of responsibility

Equal opportunity is good but special privilege even better.

We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.

The workers of America have power enough to topple the structure of capitalism at home and to lift the whole world with them when they rise.

Successful trout fishing isn't a matter of brute force or even persistence, but something more like infiltration.

But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it?

We're all the sons of God, or children of the Is, or ideas of the Mind, or however else you want to say it.

Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord! He will not draw back and let you fall! Put your worries aside and throw yourself on him; He will welcome you and heal you.

The artist's life nourishes itself on the particular, the concrete.