Sometimes, the simple things are more fun and meaningful than all the banquets in the world.

Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free country? Plato: I have, and think it odd they do this.Socrates: How so, Plato?Plato: It is like reminding a baker he is a baker, or a sculptor he is asculptor.Socrates: You mean to say if someone is convinced of their trade, they haveno need to be reminded.Plato: That is correct.Socrates: I agree. If these citizens were convinced of their freedom, they would not need reminders.

You'll have to fall in love at least once in your life, or Paris has failed to rub off on you.

Falling in love is very real, but I used to shake my head when people talked about soul mates, poor deluded individuals grasping at some supernatural ideal not intended for mortals but sounded pretty in a poetry book. Then, we met, and everything changed, the cynic has become the converted, the sceptic, an ardent zealot.

Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought.

Sometimes, the simple things are more fun and meaningful than all the banquets in the world.

Art is in the eye of the beholder, and everyone will have their own interpretation.