Even though artists of all kinds claim to put their hearts and souls into their works, it will only confuse you, for example, if you try to discern a painter by his paintings. His masterpiece may be the master because of its iridescence; it may display a hundred different perspectives through his single face.

We first become salesmen as children in the confession booths of our parents.

Those who speak of progression but are afraid of change are self-repressed and therefore unable to reach any further than their eyes can already see.

A man who loves others based solely on how they make him feel, or what they do for him, is really not loving others at all - but loving only himself.

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

Everyone has a sense of humor. If you don't laugh at jokes, you probably laugh at opinions

A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don't like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.