“There is a rage inside me that I mitigate with my constant drawing.”

“You can't sit next to me doing nothing while I'm trying desperately to save myself by doing something.”

“We kunnen straks alles in Goud veranderen: mijn broer, de katten, de tuin, de rivier, ons leven, onze dromen.”

“There's a part of me that knows that I'll never die. There's a part of me that knows better.”

“Nothing touches the soul but leaves its impress, and thus, little by little, we are fashioned into the image of all we have seen and heard, known and meditated; and if we learn to live with all that is fairest and purest and best , the love of it all will in the end become our life. ”

“The Lord never asks the impossible. Often the difficult, but never the impossible.”

“God in His infinite wisdom blessed humans with redundant tongues: one to outfit the mouth for speech. And a mother tongue to give it meaning... Though it wags out such inconceivable beauty, attached to the mother tongue lies one much maligned woman.”