Wit beyond measure is a man’s greatest treasure.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
I like the night. Without the dark, we’d never see the stars.
Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.
The scariest moment is always just before you start.
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
I dream my painting and I paint my dream.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.
Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I’m afraid of.
This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large – I contain multitudes.
In order to be irreplaceacle, one must always be different.
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.
Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.