“My art, my greatest art, is the skill to live within me.”

“Those who know who one should die knew how one should live.”

“A death without being a loss to anybody is the most unworthy death.”

“In this world and the hereafter, we should not be afraid of no one but ourselves.”

“One dies the way he lives.”

“Seize the day and explore the allure of life.”

“To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.”

“art is risk made visible”

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”

“We are among the first peoples in human history who do not broadly inherit religious identity as a given, a matter of kin and tribe, like hair color and hometown. But the very fluidity of thisthe p...”

“If you are too busy to love, you are too busy to live; if you are too busy to live, you are too busy to love.”

“Embrace all. Help some. Trust few. Harm none.”

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of wi...”

“My dear,Find what you love and let it kill you.Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.Let it kill you and let it devour your remains....”

“If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?”