That's what I wanted. Something to enrich me, to make me feel better about the things in my life that I could never change." - Page 56

If you don't think too good, don't think too much.

You Don't have to live forever you just have to live.

When there is a true or useful thing, there is sure to be a counterfeit.

When we score a sublime goal I'm as happy as anyone but you don't get to enjoy a game. You can't possibly. The game's too important to enjoy.

Man's need for art is absolutely primordial, as strong as, and perhaps stronger than, our need for bread. Without bread, we die of hunger, but without art we die of boredom.

Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius.

One doesn't make peace with one's friends. One makes peace with one's enemies.

You can have manic depression without having an ounce of creativity

All my life I've wanted, just once, to say something clever without losing my train of thought

Be grateful that the poor man is there, so that by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself