Life's not so bad after all. There are not only poison but also antidotes.

It's so easy to love. The only hard thing is to be loved. [Vincent Van Gogh]

Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.

He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, "God did not create us to abandon us.

One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.

You cannot be firmly certain about anything. You can only have enough courage and strength to do what you consider to be right. Maybe it turns out that was wrong, but still you would have done his, and it is most important.

Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives.

There are neither good nor evil, only the existence and action.

No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.

His mind was like a soup dish, wide and shallow; it could hold a small amount of nearly anything, but the slightest jarring spilled the soup into somebody's lap

I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.

Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.

Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.

How difficult it is to be simple.

Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.

There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.

The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.

The concentration of a small child at play is analogous to the concentration of the artist of any discipline. In real play, which is real concentration, the child is not only outside time, he is outside himself.

To pray is to listen, to move through my own chattering to God, to that place where I can be silent and listen to what God may have to say.