To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

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.

Author complains about "the further submergence of irrecoverable history into a perpetually churned present.

You don’t look injured to me. What am I supposed to think? Have you been with them this whole time? My god, Brook. Where were you?

The natural price, therefore, is, as it were, the central price, to which the prices of all commodities are continually gravitating.

Hackle may be the best absurdist story writer working today.

In the end ... success or failure will come down to an ethical decision, one on which those now living will be judged for generations to come.

There are some places where you want to get money, but it's not really about the money.

I think I skipped a lot of music, like when I was 17 or 18. I didnt know about a lot of new bands because I was so immersed in older music.

Hating the Yankees is as American as pizza pie, unwed mothers, and cheating on your income tax.

People always want to identify a writer with their protagonist.

Almost always the men who achieve these fundamental inventions of a new paradigm have been either very young or very new to the field whose paradigm they change.