Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.
Raise the stakes! Always push your luck because no one else would push it for you.
In my experience, what every true artist wants, really wants, is to be paid.
I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and understanding of humanity, but always ready to annotate its little foibles. I think I'd lay my cards down on that, and say that it's that that I'm trying to do.
In ancient times cats were worshiped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
There is no doubt that being human is incredibly difficult and cannot be mastered in one lifetime.