Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.

To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors.

Misery is the only thing in the world that has no end or edge.

Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones.

Religion will never show the way.

Listen, my friend, all forms that exist in God's universe can be found in the human figure. A man's body and face can tell everything he represents. So how could I ever exhaust my interest in it?

Reading has always been the largest and most irreplaceable pleasure for Vincent; reading about other people's successes and failures, joys and sufferings seemed to bury his own failures.