"People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibition have been a failure, because the rich - don't want to buy anything."

"I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive."

"I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return."

"I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best"

"I drank to drown my pain, but the damned pain learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good behavior."

"I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint."

"Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please"

"This is a celebration of individual freedom, not of homosexuality. No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody."

"I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up."

"The man who has no imagination has no wings."

"To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life."

"If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow."