"The good face pain. But the great? They embrace it."

“I'm still going to love you, always. And in the rock-paper-scissors of life, love is rock. fear, anger, everthing else...no contest.”

“I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there's nothing quite like country dark, which was really black. And as a child, your imagination runs wild.”

Source : Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. May 31, 2012.

“I think a lot of times on TV we see caricatures - that's what's funny.”

“I agree that comedy does a good job - and is often about - stepping over the line - Lenny Bruce, etc. - and that this is important for a lot of poets too. I guess I feel like there has to be depth.”

“My 20s were a time where I made it; my 30s were when I was away, confused, and trying to figure it all out.”

Source : "Hey Buuuuddy: A Pauly Shore GQ&A". Interview with Stelios Phili, www.gq.com. August 23, 2011.

“Color is a means to exert a direct influence on the soul.”

Source : "Abstract Art" by Anna Moszynska, Thames and Hudson, 1990.

“You can trust a few some of the time, and most none of the time. Feel lucky if you have even one to trust all of the time.”

Source : Virginia C. Andrews (1981). “If there be thorns”, Pocket Books ; Markham, Ont. : Distributed in Canada by PaperJacks

“He who knows does not feel wonder. It could not be said that God experiences wonder, for God knows in the most absolute and perfect way.”