"We ought not to desire the impossible...." - Quote by Leonardo Da Vinci

“We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot.”

“The mind of a painter should be like a mirror which is filled with as many images as there are things placed before him.”

“The organ of perception acts more readily than judgment.”

“Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.”

“Desire, when it stems from the heart and spirit, when it is pure and intense, possesses awesome electromagnetic energy. This energy is released into the ether each night, as the mind falls into the sleep state. Each morning it returns to the conscious state reinforced with the cosmic currents. That which has been imaged will surely and certainly be manifested. You can rely, young man, upon this ageless promise as surely as you can rely upon the eternally unbroken promise of sunrise... and of Spring.”

“Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted?”

“I tend to avoid melodrama. I try to create very realistic settings and very realistic experiences and realistic responses to these experiences. Melodrama is the use of really big events that may or may not happen in real life - certainly they do, but they're not events that are common to most people. Most of the things that happen in my novels are things that could happen to people in real life.”

“The first draft of anything is sh*t.”

“I had some shots that I felt like I should've made; I just didn't make them. I'm not going to shoot the ball great every night.”