There are no right answers to wrong questions.

I think the mystery of art lies in this, that artists’ relationship is essentially with their work — not with power, not with profit, not with themselves, not even with their audience.

We broke the world to make it whole.

That I was not dueling with the king, but trying to communicate with him, was itself an incommunicable fact.

The hunger of a dragon is slow to wake, but hard to sate.

To oppose something is to maintain it.

We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them; and part of that pleasure is that the eyes can choose where to look. But the ears can't choose where to listen.