Unlike God the artist does not start with nothing and make something of it. He starts with himself as nothing and makes something of the nothing with the things at hand.

Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.

Strange to say what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

Thanks be to God, since my leaving drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.

I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition.

Before I went to bed, I sat up till 2 a-clock in my chamber, reading of Mr. Hooke's Microscopical Observations, the most ingenious book that I ever read in my life.

I know not how to abstain from reading.

I went home and took my wife and went to my Cosen Tho. Pepys's and found them just sat down to dinner, which was very good; only the venison pasty was palpable beef, which was not handsome.

The best of a bad bargain.

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Self-education is self-empowerment.

If love disappear forever, a veil of sadness, falls over the valley of dried tears.

God is raising up His heroes and the time will come when they will appear and the world will wonder where they came from.

Grief is a process, not a state.

We can love someone without understanding that person.

My father's parents were from Sardinia and my mother's from Barcelona.

I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-business film takes itself very seriously.

Life is rough so you gotta be tough.

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Sometimes, there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it. Like my heart's going to cave in.