They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead, / They brought me bitter news to hear, and bitter tears to shed.

Jolly boating weather, And a hay harvest breeze, Blade on the feather, Shade off the trees.

Somewhere there must one Made for this soul, to move it.

Your chilly stars I can forgo, this warm kind world is all I know.

All beauteous things for which we live By laws of space and time decay. But Oh, the very reason why I clasp them, is because they die.

And as we watched, the Tsar of Death lifted up his eyelids like skirts and began to dance in the streets of Leningrad.

When what you value and dream about doesn’t match the life you are living, you have pain.

Ninja faith stands. It is not shaken when things seem contrary to what one expects. Ninja faith chooses to believe the truth.

The earth therefore is not Gods jurisdiction. It is man’ jurisdiction. The earth is man’s domain. Man therefore is responsible for what transpires here.

I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place. Any God worth "believing in" would surely prefer an honest agnostic to a calculating hypocrite.

the best compliment to a mother is to appreciate her little one.

That's the game of baseball - amazing things happen.

Passion impels our deeds; ideology supplies the explanations.

I strive to make the next painting better than the last one. That's why the most exciting thing to me is the next one.

You never know, life is short but it’s wide