"For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom."

-- Yukio Mishima

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“A record company used to be a very good thing, but they ended up soul-destroyingly trapping people in the accounting department. And you couldn't get any further, and the heads of each department were changing all the time, so you couldn't have any permanent relationship within the corporation.”
“If I had five million pounds I'd start a radio station because something needs to be done. It would be nice to turn on the radio and hear something that didn't make you feel like smashing up the kitchen and strangling the cat.”
“Judging from the letters I've received from obviously feeble-minded persons who wish I would write another These Old Shades, it ought to sell like hot cakes.”
“There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.”
“My heart Has a Mind of Its Own.”

Source : Song: My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own
“Life is life's greatest gift. Guard the life of another creature as you would your own because it is your own. On life's scale of values, the smallest is no less precious to the creature who owns it than the largest.”
“Wisdom and joy arise when you learn to exist now rather than in the nonexistent past or future.”
“The style, which is something I take to heart, is getting on my nerves horribly. It frustrates and torments me. I have days when Iam sick about it and nights when it gives me a fever. The more I go at it the more I find myself incapable of conveying the Idea.”

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