"The truth is that most people are not very bright."

"The whole idea of being a great artist is to be able to express something that no one else has expressed before."

"I have always been drawn to characters who are self-destructive."

"I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier s…"

"One of the most important things in life is to be able to laugh at yourself."