Hiroshima and Nagasaki were atomized at a time when the Japanese were suing desperately for peace.

This is a diseased world in which it is impossible for anyone to be fully human. One way or another, everyone who lives in the modern world is sick or maladjusted.

Sometimes, all it takes to lift the sadness from another is to let them know how much you appreciate them and how grateful you are having them in your life.

We waste this life dreaming of another.

I had choosen the path of the black sheep rather than that of the unicorns and puppies.

I quite fancy the 1940s. I like the trams and the trousers.

I'm a 21st century guy, secure in who I am.

Ignorance is the wet-nurse of prejudice.

There's no such thing as failure if you just try.

Why go through life feeling cheated? It does nothing but make you bitter.

If I don't paint for one day, I don't feel well physically or mentally.

Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been.