There's no love without pain.
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.
Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh]
To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer.
Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.
...and rout the magical mystical moonlight with fierce proof of its own greater power to light, to heat, to make everything known.