A Quote

You never get over it. But you get to where it doesn’t bother you so much.

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.

I was in my house, alone in the living room, anxious about you, watching the flashes of lightning. And a flash of lightning lit up this truth for me, right in front of my eye. That night I lost you, I lost something inside me. Or perhaps several things. Something central to my existence, the very support for who I am as a person.

Life’s as kind as you let it be.

I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

There’s nothing wrong with self-improvement, as long as you recognize that at some point you’re going to have to accept yourself in all your imperfect glory. What’s wrong with liking yourself the way you are?

She’s like smoke: you think you’re seeing her clearly enough, but when you reach for her there’s nothing there.

I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

We’re all strange inside. We learn how to disguise our differences as we grow up.

Life is a cement trampoline.