Genius consists not in making great discoveries, but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.
Not to be onto something is to be in despair.
My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted.
In this world, goodness is destined to be defeated.
It is possible, however, that the artist is both thin-skinned and prophetic and, like the canary lowered into the mine shaft to test the air, has caught a whiff of something lethal.
Why is it that no other species but man gets bored? Under the circumstances in which a man gets bored, a dog goes to sleep.