When you live with a woman you learn something every day. So far I have learned that long hair will clog up the shower drain before you can say 'Liquid-Plumr'

His ideas assumed a kind of stupefied and mechanical quality which is peculiar to despair.

Instead of chasing the idea of truth, what we should be doing is embracing the medium of drawing and using it for a purpose that fulfils our needs as an artist or designer.

Those who choose not to empathise enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it, through our own apathy.

What's great about teen fiction is that it's all mixed up - there's highbrow and lowbrow!

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death.

Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta.

If you have been given a word from God, you must continue in that direction until it comes to pass (even twenty five years like Abraham).

I love stretching myself musically.

Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.

Once we see an aspect of what we or someone else does as something that happens, we lose our grip on the idea that it has been done and that we can judge the doer and not just the happening.