"All a person does in a moment of suffering is to suffer. There is not room for anything else."

“I'm often a firm believer in "the simpler the better" approach and it's evident in my guitar setup.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

“You once said you loved me. Do you still?" My sister is watching this exchange between us. She smiles warmly at me, giving me the strength to tell him the truth. "I never stopped loving you. Even when I tried desperately to forget you. I couldn't.”

“Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner.”

“Despite all the troubles of our world, in my heart I have never given up on the love in which I was brought up or on man's hope in love. In life, just as on the artist's palette, there is but one single colour that gives meaning to life and art–the colour of love”

Source : Jacob Baal-Teshuva, Marc Chagall (2008). “Marc Chagall: 1887-1985”, Taschen America Llc

“Drawing is the most direct and personal kind of graphic expression. Unlike painting, it doesn't forgive. You put down your black line, and there it is - as inevitable as death.”

“The effort to try to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable,”

Source : "The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking". Book by Oliver Burkeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2012.

“Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew.”

“[M]y love for you is deathless, it seems to bind me to you with mighty cables that nothing but Omnipotence could break...”