Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.

Art is about finding creativity in the gutter next to you.

One shouldn't just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

Love comes… when you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

You must not try to make love definite. It is the divine accident of life.

It isn't just talent. You have to have something else. You have to have a kind of nerve.

My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention… To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

Admire as much as you can, most people don't admire enough.

Love... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy.