Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.