Without Satan, no Christ.

Is it not the artist who - like our dreams - dissolves the pretenses that hide us from ourselves, disclosing both our self-serving fantasies and our unsuspected potentialities?

Myths of the heroes speak most eloquently of man's quest to choose life over death.

To adopt the posture of the hero is the most unheroic of all acts.

Desire for gain and fear of loss burn like fire.

Never allow a minute to pass without asking yourself what you did with the time

Once the tugboat takes you out to the ocean liner, you got to get all the way on board. Can't straddle both decks.

He traced her arched eyebrow. “Every morning when I wake up with you at my side, you’re more beautiful than yesterday.

Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people.

It won't take long before I explode with pent-up rage.

Obama has little or nothing to do with the civil-rights movement. His roots are in Kenya, and he is shaped far more by anti-colonialism than by anything that Martin Luther King said or did.

Belief in God? An afterlife? I believe in rock: this apodictic rock beneath my feet.

The point now is how do we work together to achieve important goals. And one such goal is a democracy in Germany.

When you feel concentrated within the intensity of making paintings, you know exactly what you are doing.

I just want one day off when I can go swimming and eat ice cream and look at rainbows.