Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise
Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose.
Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Painting stems from a sense of organisation, the sensed positions of contrasts. Not that it is about this.
I don't get bitter, I just get better.
We're not in control but we do have a greater hope and we do have a source of joy that isn't based on our circumstances.
We live in a funny time, a funny era, when desire, to be adult desire, has to be conceived as sexual. And that didn't used to be the case. Sexuality is a social construction as much as anything else and I think the realities of sexuality don't always fit into the social constructions that we have, and we live in a goal-oriented time - on all fronts.