I am unable to describe exactly what is the matter with me; now and then there are horrible fits of anxiety, apparently without cause, or otherwise a feeling of emptiness and fatigue in the head.

The sunflower is mine, in a way.

Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

And being a husband made me helpless, because I had somebody to protect (somebody a little high-strung, who had a tough time emotionally with things like the lights going out indefinitely).

We’ll walk this road together, through the storm. Whatever weather, cold or warm.

Remember if people talk behind your back it only means you're two steps ahead!

I deeply wished I could make the stars all come down and breathe them; disappear in them

Nothing is fair. The most one can hope is for things to be logical. Justice is a rare illness in a world that is otherwise a picture of health.

I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.

It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.

I depend a lot on my own judgment, for better or worse.

I'd like to rescue people in trouble, like Superman.

A good rule for writers: do not explain overmuch.