I was shocked at college to see one hundred of my classmates in the library all reading copies of the same book. Instead of doing as they did, I went into the stacks and read the first book written by an author whose name began with Z. I received the highest grade in the class. That convinced me that the institution was not being run correctly. I left.

...we make our lives by what we love.

Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.

As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.

In the dark, all cats are black.

A meal without mushrooms is like a day without rain.

Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living.