"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 paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration."

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

"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."

"Sometimes I get bored riding down the beautiful streets of L.A. I know it sounds crazy, but I just want to go to New York and see people suffer."

"Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music."

"In every fat book there is a thin book trying to get out."

"He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser."

"He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God."

"It is never too late to become what we might have been."