You must never actually cheat the customer, even if you can. You must make her happy and satisfied, so she will come back.

You must be wise, but not too wise.

If one could only discover the unwritten bases of black magic and apply formulae to them, we would find that they were merely another form of science... perhaps less advance, perhaps more.

...a world where a sparrow's fate and that of a man can be decided in the blink of a cat's eye, such is the true measure of time.

Seriously. I'm not very bright, and it takes a lot for me to get a concept - to really get a concept. To get it enough that it becomes part of me. But when it happens I get real excited about it

Grace is not opposed to effort; it's opposed to earning.

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it.

Understand one another.

I shall not altogether die.

The art world has become so insular. The rules have become so autodidactic that, in a sense, they lose track of what people have any interest in thinking about, talking about or even looking at.

I wasn't sure what I was getting into when I signed on to work with a wrestler.

Artistic creativity is a whirlpool of imagination that swirls in the depths of the mind.