My head was a desolate place and as barren as the bare hills of Le Marche. Until I began to build in it, only vultures nested there.

Like poetry, in times of intense emotion the image returns to me. Like poetry, it stroked my soul and, by turns, lulled and stoked my senses.

Take away the pomp and circumstance, at the end of the day, only eternal things will be truly celebrated.

Working hard is a skill you have to nurture!

Lots of people let it go by and never accomplish what they want. I just wanted to see what I could do.

Why take pride in cooking, when they don't take pride in eating?

To love is to be balanced, to extend one's self beyond the sense of self.

Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.

don't say it. don't tell me that nobody's going to stare at me, because they will. don't tell me it doesn't matter, because it does. and don't tell me i look fine because that's a lie.

An artist conscientiously moves in a direction which for some good reason he takes, putting one work in front of the other with the hope he'll arrive before death overtakes him.

Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.

Fatigue roughens up the edges of your nerves; it exposes your fears and your weaknesses.