"Art is as natural as sunshine and as vital as nourishment."

“The main three components are the blues, improvisation - which is some kind of element that people are trying to make it up - and swing, which means even though they're making up music, they're trying to make it up together. It feels great, like you're having a great conversation with somebody.”

“With what dread and apprehension we entrust important jobs into the hands of others. Imagine the love of a needless God who is willing to want our work.”

“I don't think you should reprimand your child for everything you're feeling because for them it's as serious as when something happens in our day and we get upset about it.”

“Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.”

“Look, it's my misery that I have to paint this kind of painting, it's your misery that you have to love it, and the price of the misery is thirteen hundred and fifty dollars.”

“Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.”

Source : John Dryden (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.145

“While there are a great many agents in nature which boost libido and enhance sexual function, chocolate alone actually promotes the brain chemistry of being in love.”

Source : Chris Kilham (2013). “Hot Plants: Nature's Proven Sex Boosters for Men and Women”, p.192, St. Martin's Griffin

“I want to write about grown-up things.”