It is very important not to become hard. The artist must always have one skin too few in comparison to other people, so you feel the slightest wind.
Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame.
Genius is of no country.
Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd And wonder'd at the work herself had made.
A joke's a very serious thing.
Weak is that throne, and in itself unsound, Which takes not solid virtue for its ground.
The surest way to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill; Most of the ills which we poor mortals know From doctors and imagination flow.
People who have nothing better to do than talk about my hair color have no lives.
I used to psych myself up before the show and now I do the complete opposite: I psych myself down. It's 12:30 at night, you don't want some guy yelling at you. You want some guy just talking to you.
His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.
Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving for the ideal is complacency. Maturity is living with the tension.