"We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces..." - Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

“We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.”

“Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars.”

“The law of simplicity and naïveté applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime.”

“I recently took up ice sculpting. Last night I made an ice cube. This morning I made 12, I was prolific.”

“Wagner has some great moments, but a lot of miserable half hours.”

“If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman.”

“We measure success by accumulation. The measure is false. The true measure is appreciation. He who loves most has most.”

“They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.”

“Praised be the fathomless universe, for life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious.”