To do a blockbuster that isn't stressful is a delight.
Fanaticism is just one step away from barbarism.
He whom we call a gentleman is no longer the man of Nature.
The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
What a fine comedy this world would be if one did not play a part in it.
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
This is the Zen approach: nothing is there to be done. There is nothing to do. One has just to be. Have a rest and be ordinary and be natural.
If you're in despair, you don't know how to be part of your own life anymore.
Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
Sometimes goldfinches one by one will drop From low hung branches; little space they stop; But sip, and twitter, and their feathers sleek; Then off at once, as in a wanton freak: Or perhaps, to show their black, and golden wings Pausing upon their yellow flutterings.