Reading is a stout-hearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness. It is also, in my experience, one of the most thrilling and enduring delights of life, equal to a home run, a slam-dunk, or breaking the four-minute mile.
Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.
All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.
No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him.
To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer.
Everyone has their own personality, its own character, and if he respects that, everything would finally fall over for good only.