Clouds are like boogers hanging on the nostrils of the moon.
To win applause one must write stuff so simple that a coachman might sing it.
I am not thoughtless but am prepared for anything and as a result can wait patiently for whatever the future holds in store, and I'll be able to endure it.
I am never happier than when I have something to compose, for that, after all, is my sole delight and passion
Now there is music from which a man can learn something.
When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.
Believe me, my sole purpose is to make as much money as possible; for after good health it is the best thing to have.
Faith makes it possible to achieve that which man's mind can conceive and believe.
I'm so interested in the brain. I read true crime.
Maybe that's the way I'm private - I respect the privacy of "my" characters? Anyway, we're getting close to the whole "relatability" and "likability" thing.
In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense; and have no other preliminaries to settle with the reader, than that he will divest himself of prejudice and repossession, and suffer his reason and feelings to determine for themselves; and that he will put on, or rather that he will not put off, the true character of man, and generously enlarge his view beyond the present day.