Take your work seriously, but never yourself.

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

...wherever one is, some part of oneself remains on another continent.

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.

the first night is the worst possible time to make a hard and fast criticism: the baby never looks its best on the day it is born.

I’ve found the perfect partner.

Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?