If you ask me what I came into this life to do I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

Author: Emile Zola

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Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.

If you shut up truth and bury it underground it will but grow.

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life struggle intensity.

I am an artist... I am here to live out loud.

Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.

We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.

It's impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life.

There is no such thing in life as normal.