The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting. And the dust that falls on it every day remains there. Everything that's come down to us from the past has been conserved by dust.

Everything you can imagine is real.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

I want to own this transition, not to simply swallow the shame of it entire. I will push for every little irony.

Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow.

However great your dedication, you never win anything on your own

Why get rid of Chamberlain to put in Halifax? It's like getting rid of the organ-grinder to put in the monkey.

Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.

I scientifically engineer my music to be as accessible as possible.

The whole world of thought lay unexplored before me, - a world of which I had already caught large and tempting glimpses.

Some take their gold in minted mold, and some in harps thereafter, but give me mine in bubbles fine and keep the change in laughter.

What one fool can do another can.

self-possession is the ability to face without fear life in all its contradictions.