It is quite possible that the truest and most eloquent art is a successful fusion of both the visible and visionary worlds, each enhancing and reinforcing the other.

Time is not important, but art is.

The best painting comes out of compulsions and obsessions, out of deep love or hate, out of intellectual or emotional involvement with something that lies outside the painting itself.

He wasn't aware of it but when he smiled he looked like an amiable bear. When he didn't smile he didn't look amiable

Becoming a writer is a polite way of saying you've chosen alcoholism as a career.

She began to realize some decisions cannot be undone no matter how hard you try.

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.

Let the others come after us, we welcome the chase

Wealth comes from industry and from the hard experience of human toil. To dissipate it in waste and extravagance is disloyalty to humanity.

All I ever wanted to be was happy.

True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation.

Suddenly the drunken sweetheart appeared out of my door. She drank a cup of ruby wine and sat by my side. Seeing and holding the lockets of her hair My face became all eyes, and my eyes all hands.

Bodies come and go, but the soul does not change.