Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness.

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.

No need to try to explain to others what's in your heart. Some things are just between you and God.

We're nobody's dirty little secret.

It's the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it.

The car bomb was fertilizer, gasoline, fireworks and propane tanks...still safer than a Toyota.

Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.

We're a walking billboard... You want to look good to everyone who is watching.

I always cry at weddings, especially my own.

Fortunately, I've also been an electrician, and that's a happy memory for me.

The will of a majority is the will of a rabble. Progressive democracy is incompatable with liberty.

I'm not leaving New York. And neither is anyone else. We're here. We are quintessential Americans - we're not only American, but New York-American.