Reading has always been the largest and most irreplaceable pleasure for Vincent; reading about other people's successes and failures, joys and sufferings seemed to bury his own failures.

Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]

The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.

There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.

I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.

Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.

Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.

Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.

No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.

A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.

One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.

To overcome fear, do what you fear the most.

They argued because they liked argument, liked the swift run of the unfettered mind along the paths of possibility, liked to question what was not questioned.

Don't leave anything for anyone who is eventually going to leave you.

The camera has always been a guide, and it's allowed me to see things and focus on things that maybe an average person wouldn't even notice.

I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That's pretty powerful stuff when you consider that.

Don't board with the devil if you wish to be fat.

You haven't yet seen me be rude. When I am it's unmistakable. - Michelle Maxwell.

Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.

Taking smart risks can be very gratifying.

Of course it is possible that UFO's really do contain aliens as many people believe, and the government is hushing it up