You are not alive unless you know you are living.

When I know your soul, I will paint your eyes.

With one eye you are looking at the outside world, while with the other you are looking within yourself.

What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race.

It is your duty in life to save your dream.

Happiness is an angel with a serious face

What I look for is neither reality nor unreality but the subconscious, the instinctive mystery of the human race.

The function of art is to struggle against obligation.

I want to be a tuneswept fiddle string that feels the master melody, and snaps.

Rome is not outside me, but inside me.. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beauty and harmony, all these are mine, for my thought and my work.

She shot out of her seat, tired of waiting, at last ready to create her future.

I'm afraid that in nine cases out of ten Nature pulls one way and human nature another.

We do not just fear our predators, we are transfixed by them. We are prone to weave stories and fables and chat endlessly about them.

Every new promise was like something heavy I had to carry, with no place to put anything down.

No man has the mind of Christ, except him who makes it his business to obey him.

Man, the creature who knows he must die, who has dreams larger than his destiny, who is forever working a confidence trick on himself, needs an ally. Mine has been tobacco.

My wife's gotten really lazy, or as she calls it, 'pregnant.'

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

I grew up sitting beside my grandmother playing the piano and singing.

I would rather train someone and lose them, than not train them and keep them