Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person; its importance not being fully recognized for some time.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.

A conclusion is the place you get to when you’re tired of thinking.

You look up to your parents and you want them to accept you, and you don't want them to look at you in a negative light. So you do things to make them proud and accept you.

The Destiny of every Nation is bound to the Destiny of all Others.

I paid for my own education by scholarship until I left university.

I think my strongest suit is comedy. I certainly have limits in other areas.

Whoever designed this frigging map was having a laugh. Just around the corner, my arse.

Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.

It's a little strange to become a kind of symbol of a whole type of analysis.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one's self a fool.