“Painting for me is merely a means of forgetting life. It is a cry in the night. A sob broken off. A strangled laugh.”

“I heard one cry in the night, and I heard one laugh afterwards. If I cannot forget that, I shall not be able to sleep again.”

“Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life."

The most importnant truth in my life, if you ask me, and he got it all right”

“There is much you can learn from books and scrolls. These books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.”

“In life we will smile, laugh, cry, bleed, die and finally laugh again.”

“Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.”

“Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than to remember me and cry.”

“No matter if I'm laughing or crying
It ain't gonna stop me from trying
The truth is what I have to uncover
In this only life.”

“I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of the throat and I'd cry for a week.”

“It's time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.”