"The same mistakes can never be repeated."

“You have to find what makes you stable in the storm. Then, no matter what's happening round you, no matter what the hype or the publicity, you can still manage to make leaps in your work as an artist.”

“In the world of Art there are no wrong choices.”

“People have said that I said I hate television. I never did say that. What I said was that I hated a lot of stuff that was on television. It's nothing about the medium itself.”

“Words are music, really.”

“The lurking tragedy: The chances are that an accident will some day happen to you at a friend's dinner table ... As long as water and coffee and jelly exist, a certain percentage of each will necessarily be overturned upon a like number of snowy white tablecloths. Usually the tragedy is really no one's fault.”

Source : Mary Elizabeth Clark, Margery Closey Quigley (1939). “Etiquette Every Child Should Know”

“Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the poet to become tender and imaginitive in the loneliness of confinement. He banquets upon the honey of his own thoughts, and, like the captive bird, pours forth his soul in melody.”

“If you can keep your son off the pipe and your daughter off the pole, you're ahead of the game.”

“The truly healthy alternative to that chip is not a fake chip; it’s a carrot.”

Source : Mark Bittman (2015). “A Bone to Pick: The good and bad news about food, with wisdom and advice on diets, food safety, GMOs, farming, and more”, p.98, Clarkson Potter