People always get what they want. But there is a price for everything. Failures are either those who do not know what they want or are not prepared to pay the price asked them. The price varies from individual to individual. Some get things at bargain-sale prices, others only at famine prices. But it is no use grumbling. Whatever price you are asked, you must pay.

Shall memory restore The steps and the shore, The face and the meeting place.

Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.

A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it.

You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire.

I used to try and concentrate the poem so much that there wasn't a word that wasn't essential. This leads to becoming boring and constipated.

The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.