"Art is a step from what is..." - Quote by Khalil Gibran

“I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us.”

“And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.”

“The earth is like a beautiful bride who needs no manmade jewels to heighten her loveliness.”

“To produce music is also in a sense to produce children.”

“A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody.”

“I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else.”

“One night a friend lent me a book of short stories by Franz Kafka. I went back to the pension where I was staying and began to read The Metamorphosis. The first line almost knocked me off the bed. I was so surprised. The first line reads, “As Gregor Samsa awoke that morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. . . .” When I read the line I thought to myself that I didn’t know anyone was allowed to write things like that. If I had known, I would have started writing a long time ago. So I immediately started writing short stories.”

“Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.”

“When I went away to college, I marveled at the wealth of bookstores around Harvard Square.”