Let's Level the Playing Field!

You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company.

The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but indifference-in society.

Only by pairing knowledge with inspiration will art evolve. Without these conditions any musician will remain a flawed artist, if one may speak of an artist at all.

Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again.

I had [at school] my own little posse of people that all felt weird together so it wasn't so lonely.

What happened to the winner" Adina asked. "She tripped." "And the first runner-up?" Miss Michigan cracked her knuckles. "She tripped, too.

You must learn, you must let God teach you, that the only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it. God will waste nothing.

Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism.

I couldn't feel good about myself hanging out in Armani clothes when my girlfriend can't even pay her heating bill. I'd feel foul and I'd be embarrassed.

Mystery has great charms for womanhood.