We get more dangerous as we accumulate knowledge, and that's both a sadness and something to control, try to learn to live with, make terms with.

I don't want to wear my compositional tools on my sleeve.

Three days in a city now and I'm quite flipped. There's too much noise. I just can't do with it.

There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.

We are like some particle in motion always moving and meeting other particle.

O Life! thou art a galling load Along a rough a weary road to wretches such as I.

Death, with funereal shades in vain surrounds me, My reason through his darkness seeth light: 'Tis the last step which brings me close to Thee: 'Tis the veil falling, 'twixt Thy face and mine.

I wouldn’t change any of my reactions.

Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging.

There ain't no ticks like poly-ticks. Bloodsuckers all.

I wish to die painting.

You go through your career and you find people and cast who you love and you go through and keep them and you never want to let them go because you have a great repertory with them.

In the mind engaged in struggling with hardship, one always finds something delightful. The sorrow of disappointment arises in the complacency of satisfaction.