The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.