Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed.

One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role and place in the community. I never felt that living in a city - as I once did for a couple of years.

There is a fine art to making enemies and it requires diligent cultivation. It's not as easy as it looks.

Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.

Doctrines like Christianity or Islam or Marxism require unanimity of belief. One dissenter casts doubt on the creed of millions.

In both metaphysics and art, honesty is the best policy. Keep it clean.

What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.