Money out of nothing is money that is eventually worth nothing..

My general approach to making art making hasn't changed much since I was 20, poor, and writing songs in my bedroom wanting to get my art out of my bo….

No faith is our own that we have not arduously won..

I didn't have much to say to anybody but kept to myself and my books. With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw it's fragrance deep….

If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction..

I take things too seriously..

With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive..

Wanderlust is incurable..

When I would ask women to tell me landays, and they were comfortable enough to do so, they'd tell me ones that reflected the state of their own lives..

It is no longer enough to point out what we don't like, we have to work out 'What sort of society do we want?.

I will no longer take anyone's word for my experience..

It's very difficult when you're in something to be objective enough about the material to just see it for what it is. You either read too much into i….

Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry..

How can I dispose of myself with it?.

Curiously enough, while very small people have a never-failing sense of their own importance, very great ones are often easily disheartened and put o….

Give yourself enough time to really learn how to cook..

I know my sound when i hear it. My stroke is just my stroke..

What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us..

This depravation of our nature is nothing else but the blotting of God's image in us..

The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should become credulous, and lose t….

Having experienced everything one time already made it easier the second time around..