#Against

"I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it."

"I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't."

"Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate."

"A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles."

"We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love."

"Humor is just another defense against the universe."

"To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine."

"Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you."

"Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating."

"Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse."

"I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values against which art could be measured. I didn't trust my own subjective responses."

"Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future."

"Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows."

"There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor."

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."