The shellfish thing is very scary. You have to know the people you buy from and exactly where their wholesalers are getting the fish from.
Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.
There are cases in which the greatest daring is the greatest wisdom.
Architects and painters know precisely what they are about as long as they deal with material phenomena. . . . But when they come to the aesthetics of their work, when they aim at a particular effect on the mind or on the senses, the rules dissolve into nothing but vague ideas.
War is merely a continuation of politics.
Intelligence alone is not courage, we often see that the most intelligent people are irresolute. Since in the rush of events a man is governed by feelings rather than by thought, the intellect needs to arouse the quality of courage, which then supports and sustains it in action.
If you entrench yourself behind strong fortifications, you compel the enemy seek a solution elsewhere.
I am a chatty person, but colossally discreet.
I guess I'd always mocked the American accent. I didn't consider it a respectable dialect, but I was told that it was.
I always think, if I were an editor, and I was invited to a show, and I would have to wait for 45 minutes in the dark or in the cold or in the heat, maybe I would like to have a fresh drink or a piece of chocolate.
I don't have a problem doing interviews. It's not punishment. There's things about it that I don't like. No one else is really saying these kinds of things, so someone has to. I don't think that it's the most humbled thing to talk about yourself for hours and hours and hours.