Be too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off.
The highest treason a crab can commit is to make a leap for the rim of the bucket.
It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior's life.
We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.
Art is a war - between ourselves and the forces of self-sabotage that would stop us from doing our work. The artist is a warrior.
We are all warriors. Each of us struggles every day to define and defend our sense of purpose and integrity, to justify our existence on the planet and to understand, if only within our own hearts, who we are and what we believe in.