Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.
If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.
Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.
The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything.
And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.)
That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.