Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can't do it themselves!
I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.
When two men fight over a woman it's the fight they want, not the woman.
Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself.