“Work is not a means to make a living but a means to live your making;we do not make a living,we make a life”

“We don't live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means, and that is what life is for.”

“I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.”

“We live but a short time, at the longest. How do we make our lives mean something? If we die in glory, with our minds and our hearts fixed on achieving a great goal, we have lived a life that mattered.”

“I mean, we have to read books or we'll make mistakes. If we read stories of how other people lived, we can figure out better ways to live. I mean we can look at other people's lives and not make the same mistakes they made. Or we can, like, use their examples as models for ourselves.”

“We all die, sweetheart. You’ve just got to live your life with enough meaning while you’re still here to make it all worthwhile.”