Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare.
patience is an integral part of talent.
in the big city nobody has time to make friends. The big city is a big solitude.
cats will be clean in a pigsty while pigs will be dirty in a marble hall.
Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
the seat of the greatest patriotic loyalties is in the stomach. Long after giving up all attachment to the land of his birth, the naturalized American citizen holds fast to the food of his parents.