“Let's have some new cliches.”

“A verbal contract is worth about as much as the paper it's written on.”

“Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.”

“The harder I work, the luckier I get.”

“No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.”

“Please write music like Wagner, only louder.”

“When man will return to nature, nature will return to him.”

“The sky is an enormous man.”

“When the full-grown poet came,Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its shows of day and night,) saying, He is mine;But out spake too the Soul of man, proud, jealous and unr...”

“Pain rises. From the heart to the head pain rises.”

“This was the start of a period that blurs as I try to recall it. Incidents seem to cascade and merge. Events become feelings, fellings become events. Head and heart are contrary historians.”

“The head has no answers, and the heart has no questions, Jack would say."Quoting his teacher and good friend Jack Kakakaway”