When I know your soul, I will paint your eyes.

With one eye you are looking at the outside world, while with the other you are looking within yourself.

What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race.

It is your duty in life to save your dream.

Happiness is an angel with a serious face

What I look for is neither reality nor unreality but the subconscious, the instinctive mystery of the human race.

The function of art is to struggle against obligation.

I want to be a tuneswept fiddle string that feels the master melody, and snaps.

You are not alive unless you know you are living.

Rome is not outside me, but inside me.. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beauty and harmony, all these are mine, for my thought and my work.

and that's where love finds you... in the tragedies.

Poverty and desperation are the parents of ambition. (character Norm Woodruff)

The fact is, I diet every day of my life. I have to work at it. But I diet so I can pig out.

Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they're 100% personal.

It's a cliche that the Senate is broken, and like most cliches, it's true.

Music ministers to human welfare more than any other art.

I'd had the quintessential liberal arts experience, and I came out of college not having a clue of what to do.

I think actors really like to know what does a casting agent really think or what does a composer really think.

Housekeeping ain't no joke.

The right to work is a slogan which should be accepted by every democracy.