An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.

Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.

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

We’re not completely happy here because we’re not supposed to be! Earth is not our final home

You worry too much. Eat some bacon...what? No, I got no idea if it'll make you feel better, I just made too much bacon.

I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us.

Human existence had to have a deeper source than our own dank fluids. Dank or rank. There had to be a force behind it, a principal being who was and is and ever shall be.

You never hear in the news, "200 killed today when Atheist rebels took heavy shelling from the Agnostic stronghold in the north."

Evolution is a mistake. Humans are a mistake. We've destroyed our planet.

Thus, then, the All that is is limited In no one region of its onward paths, For then 'tmust have forever its beyond.

The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.

In this way, through experience they will be formed adequately, will be encouraged, and will be capable of rendering service to God.

If you have no authority to legislate my freedoms, then I'm truly free, at least from you.