If the existentialists are right, that life is meaningless, and if we acknowledge that, we are better equipped to find pleasure in small things.

Destiny is desire meeting opportunity. You become who you are driven to be.

The future is trapped in a cage opened only by the key of genius.

Happiness is a drug. It creates a biological change in the brain cells that inhibits negative feelings. Happiness boosts energy and increases energy in others.

From a book you can learn the theory but it takes practise to learn how to live life.

Photographs shape the past in our own image.

Anyone can forget about talent, but if you're a good person, your name will be remembered a long time.

And will you succeed? Yes, you will indeed!

This art, born of genius and good taste, can become beautiful and varied to an infinite degree.

Never attack a problem without also presenting a solution.

Avant-garde art jousts with propriety, but takes care never to unseat it.

Life is full of confusion. Confusion of love, passion, and romance. Confusion of family and friends. Confusion with life itself. What path we take, what turns we make. How we roll our dice.

Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.

Look, Salvador Dali did not paint because he needed the money. No conversation about materialism and music makes sense. You make music and that's that, it doesn't matter why.

I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck.

The crows live in the world like you do. They are part of nature.