If Michaelangelo were a heterosexual, the Sistine Chapel would have been painted basic white and with a roller.

People who care for you inevitably become beautiful.

Life is unjust, people can be cruel, and yet if you harden your heart, you will lose what little love there is in this world.

Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying act.

Whenever I doubt the existence of God or the Goddess, I look at horses. Only God could have made a horse.

Trouble is said to be good for an artist's soul but almost never is.

In art as in politics we must deal with people as they are not as we wish them to be. Only by working with the real can you get closer to the ideal.