"There is nothing to be valued more highly than to have people praying for us; God links up His power in answer to their prayers."

“Are you learning to say things after listening to God, or are you saying things and trying to make God's word fit in?”

“If you try to give an on-the-one-hand-or-the-other- hand answer, only one of the hands tends to get quoted.”

“What is important to me in my work is the identity that is hidden behind so-called reality. I search for a bridge from the given present tot the invisible, rather as a famous cabalist once said, 'If you wish to grasp the invisible, penetrate as deeply as possible into the visible'.”

Source : "On my painting". Max Beckmann's Speech during the exhibition 'Twentieth-Century German Art', London, July 21, 1938.

“How do you expect to communicate with the ocean, when you can’t even understand one another?”

“No one gives up on something until it turns on them, whether or not that thing is real or unreal.”

Source : Thomas Ligotti (2009). “Teatro Grottesco”, p.163, Random House

“From now on, wherever you walk, I will walk with you. . .”

“A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.”

“For me, it was a wonderful surprise because I saw wonderful actors being very professional working in front of me [on Chicken with Plums]. I finally understood what an actor is and what an actor does. On a daily basis, it's a bit repetitive.”