..giving into despair was like eating poisonous berries to keep from feeling hungry.

It's good to cry a bit, 'cause that helps us get through the rough parts. And the winter is though, there's no doubt. But we just hang on until spring when that ache will be all but swallowed up.

Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live

We don't have to accept the things we might change.

Only men are capable of aesthetic greatness.

Ironically, writing a novel is not a way to sort out your confusion.

It has always happened that tyrants, in order to strengthen their power, have made every effort to train their people not only in obedience and servility toward themselves, but also in adoration.

Man is an historical animal, with a deep sense of his own past; and if he cannot integrate the past by a history explicit and true, he will integrate it by a history implicit and false.

All my sons are named George Foreman. They all know where they came from.

I am helping people maybe scrape off some of the old stuff that has been put upon us that has taken us from being genius's to not feeling great about ourselves by having doubts, fears and anxieties.

The thing about nightmares was that you couldn't prepare for them. They sneaked up on you when you were most vulnerable.

Never draw anything you can copy, never copy anything you can trace, never trace anything you can cut out and paste up.