You cannot be firmly certain about anything. You can only have enough courage and strength to do what you consider to be right. Maybe it turns out that was wrong, but still you would have done his, and it is most important.

Normal people do not create art.

Sometimes men are generous and forgiving, sometimes angry and blind.

His mind was like a soup dish, wide and shallow; it could hold a small amount of nearly anything, but the slightest jarring spilled the soup into somebody's lap

Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.

We...believe that art is religious, because it is one of man's highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only good and bad art.

...and rout the magical mystical moonlight with fierce proof of its own greater power to light, to heat, to make everything known.