“At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important.”

“What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.”

“Only those who attempt the absurd...will achieve the impossible. I think ...I think it's in my basement...Let me go upstairs and check.”

“I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.”

“So let us then try to climb the mountain, not by stepping on what is below us, but to pull us up at what is above us, for my part at the stars; amen.”

“Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?”

“The greatest challenge of my life has been to see and accept the actual truth without great pain and struggle against it.”