I wish to have no status as a man. I am equally content to be a worm or a rat, and am only glad that I am not becuase they have such a rough time without the pleasure of painting.

Wherever a cat sits, there shall happiness be found.

Hilda and I slept alongside each other fully dressed, head to feet.

I love to dwell on the thought that the artist is next in divinity to the saint. He, like the saint, performs miracles.

Do you know what good art is? It is saying "ta" to God.

Painting is saying "Ta" to God.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

There was never anything else I wanted to pursue. It was always theater, and movies are a fairly new thing.

the only way to become a better writer is to become a better person.

Now, whether or not in a place like Chicago you do stop and frisk, which worked very well, Mayor [Rudy] Giuliani is here, worked very well in New York.

Even just a normal shot I find that much more interesting because of the 3D. It's like a shot of a couple of cars and us walking and it's like, "Oh wow, this is 3D. I've never seen this before!".

My songs are my hookers. I can't worry about how they are going to be treated; they just need to bring home the bacon.

In times of war, the law falls silent.

We like no noise unless we make it ourselves.

I’m a little worried about Edward… Can vampires go into shock? Bella Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 7, p.129

The more spiritual a man desires to be, the more bitter does his present life become to him; because he sees more clearly and perceives more sensibly the defects of human corruption.