Ignorance sheer ignorance. There is no confidence to equal it. It's only when you know something about a profession that you are timid or careful.

Criticism is the essence of creation.

Fake is as old as the Eden tree.

Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers.

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them.

I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.