I don't believe other people are ever as foolishly excited as I am while I'm working. How could they be? Writers would have to live in trees.
To see far is one thing, going there is another.
Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.
. . . That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.
Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them
Nothing grows well in the shade of a big tree.
Simplicity is complexity resolved
I also like a lot of silence, and when you're touring, it's constantly noise, all the time, you're surrounded with 15 or 20 people the entire time. I find that tough.
There are two fools in every marketplace; one asks too little, one asks too much.
One must find out for oneself, and make sure beyond doubt, 'who' one is, 'what' one is, 'why' one is. . . Being thus conscious of the proper course to pursue, the next thing is to understand the conditions necessary to following it out. After that, one must eliminate from oneself every element alien or hostile to success, and develop those parts of oneself which are specially needed to control the aforesaid conditions.
Voles-tu, mon petit papillon. ” Illium laughed at Galen’s instruction to “fly, little butterfly