...the world was trying to change its old face and show its underbelly of earth and roots.

It’s important that you keep asking God to show you what He wants you to do. If you don’t ask, you won’t know.

Being in New York, a lot of people I knew were top-notch copy editors or photo retouchers, so I had a good community around me that knew how to do the specialized stuff.

If a football official were to call for a slow-motion replay every time Didier Drogba fell over, each match would last about six weeks.

The conclusion, therefore, is that there are two major forces in society: love, which multiplies the species, and the nose, which subordinates it to the individual. Procreation, equilibrium.

Teaching...can be likened to a conversation in which you listen to the speaker carefully before you reply.

With practice the craft will come almost of itself, in spite of you and all the more easitly if you think of something besides technique.

Haggard, I would not be you for all the world," he declared. "You have let your doom in by the front door, although it will not depart that way. (...) Farewell, poor Haggard, farewell!

Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.

It would be so much easier if there were a secret password, or handshake. Netherworld, open sesame! Yeah, that didn't work, either.

When someone is counting out gold for you, don't look at your hands, or the gold. Look at the giver.