Energy wasted on negative ends.

Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.

"God", "the immortality of the soul", "salvation", "the beyond"-even as a child I had no time for such notions, I do not waste any time upon them-maybe I was never childish enough for that?

Heavy, heavy-hearted people grow lighter and rise occasionally to their surface through precisely that which makes others heavier,through hatred and love.

When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly.

Art depends upon the inexactitude of sight.

Remain true to the earth.