Education has really only one basic factor: one must want it.

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.

Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.

Thrashing is not the most noticeably awful of disappointments. Not to have attempted is the genuine disappointment.

I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.

If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth.

The school of life embodies a compulsory education that no man escapes.

"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.

The sweetest roamer is a boy's young heart.

Not that I can think of. In fact, I have never met anyone who didn’t like gargoyles.

Honor always comes at a price, else it would be worthless.

I don't think about going back to the theater.

When I play my own music, or when I play new music, there's much more stress and intensity of thinking about how I'm going to make it work!

What we do in our group is the opposite of the bad effects of globalization. We produce in Italy and in France and we sell to China, when usually it's the opposite.

I like to kill people in my dreams, so when I fall asleep be sure not to come too close.

When you're in the editing process, you try different things and you get creative ideas.

I don't feel under-taxed in any way at all.

The older I get, the more I believe in practice and work over natural talent and ability.

I didn't write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them.