As when, O lady mine, With chiselled touchThe stone unhewn and coldBecomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows.

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?

If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

If I am more alive because love burns and chars me, as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation, it's that he who lays me low is my salvation, and invigorates the more, the more he scars me.

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Critique by creating.

No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.

The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.

AS YOU GIVE OUT SO SHALL YOU RECEIVE.

In real life nothing means anything. Stuff happens and there just is no structure.

Magic was merely the unknown, a wild thing undefined by logic or reason.

No doubt the truth is hard to come by for those who do not like the sound of it - dreams and illusions are so much more pleasant.

For some of the large indignities of life, the best remedy is direct action. For the small indignities, the best remedy is a Charlie Chaplin movie. The hard part is knowing the difference.

It takes brains. It's not like a forward, where you can get away with scoring and not play defense. On defense you have to be thinking.

When I first came up, the bullpen was pretty much where they put the guys who couldn't start.

Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else.

I love corduroys , because they are really comfy and they're cozier than jeans. They come in nice autumn hues - colors that you can have fun with.

Dumb animals we call them, while they bark and neigh and moo. They talk as much as we do - to them we seem dumb too.

The pause is a part of the walk.