“You're worse than decent. You're virtuous.”

“A virtuous person is better than virtue and a vicious person is worse than vice.”

“You can't think decently if you're not willing to hurt yourself”

“In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both, lady, not both.”

“"You think you're so smart" is never a compliment; the only thing worse than being smart is thinking that you are.”

“You think You're frightening me with Your hell, don't You? You think Your hell is worse than mine.”

“You're better than seven years of food. You're better than windows. You're even better than the sky.”

“Doing what you're supposed to do is always boring. I can't imagine anything worse than being required to have fun.”

“Every day that you don't practice is a day you're getting worse.”

“If you're going to create, create a lot. Creativity is not like playing the slot machines, where failure to win means you go home broke. With creativity, if you don't win, you're usually no worse off than if you hadn't played.”