French people are Italian people in a bad mood.

Understand that some of your enemies are amongst your best friends.

It is not inspiration; it is expiration.

If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.

Living is a horizontal fall.

Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.

And history becomes legend and legend becomes history.