Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long.

You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you).

The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage.

Hem, ' he said, and I knew he was a critic now, since, in conversation, they put your name at the beginning of a sentence rather than at the end.

Weapons, when they break and are mended, can be stronger at the mended places. Perhaps hearts are the same.

The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people.

I have every right to know how my taxes are spent, how every single penny of it is spent. I have the right to know that.

I think what is great is that if anything that I do is interesting to somebody else, then I really don't think it matters at all what I had originally intended.

You might as well take the sun out of the sky as friendship from life: for the immortal gods have given us nothing better or more delightful.

Beautiful is dangerous.

Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike Pleasure, wears no mask.

A travel agent told I could spend 7 nights in HAWAII no days just nights.

It is in the intellectual and emotional response, the conscious and subconscious associations of the artist, that the potential power of painting lies.