"Everybody is too busy with their own lives to give a damn about your book, painting, screenplay etc, especially if you haven't sold it yet. And the ones that aren't, you don't want in your life anyway."

"If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness."

"For what I have received, may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge..."