We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.