"I have never learned anything except from..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.”

“It would leave no room for developments and I intend to develop in many directions.”

“Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it.”

“Study the science of art and the art of science.”

“Not judginess, but openness and curiosity are our proper business. I'm still trying to educate myself. I don't think you need to keep rehearsing your instincts. Far better to seek out models of what you can't do.”

“The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that's powerful.”

“But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.”

“I love my mother for all the times she said absolutely nothing.... Thinking back on it all, it must have been the most difficult part of mothering she ever had to do: knowing the outcome, yet feeling she had no right to keep me from charting my own path. I thank her for all her virtues, but mostly for never once having said, "I told you so.”

“If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.”