“Are you becoming what you’ve always hated?”

If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.

What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.

There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.

Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside – remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.

Some lose all mind and become soul, insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual – some lose both and become accepted.

Only the boring get bored.

We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.

Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.

Of course it’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.

Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.

We must bring our own light to the darkness.

To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.

If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.

I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.

Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.

Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.

There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.

Creating is a lonely thing in a lot of ways.

With girls, friendships are hard because you have to learn to get to a maturity level to love them but not want to be them.

Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn’t roar?