“The chef who cooks without a song on his lips cannot hope to infuse the right carefree improvisatory note into his art.”

“Have you noticed how just trying to impose any sort of chronology on events makes it seem as though a lot of time has been occupied?”

“Sometimes in the company of others I find a disagreeable spirit of competitiveness kicks in and each person is shamed into spending rather more than he would have wished. This is a historically est...”

“I was simultaneously elated and depressed, a common enough state of mind these days when people are offered a great deal of money to do something repugnant.”

“Hide not your talents, they for use were made,What's a sundial in the shade?”

“The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. ”

“Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.”