One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a successful philosopher. His nature is to view the world in an unpredictable albeit useful light.

Music is the brandy of the damned.

The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest.

Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Art hath an enemy called ignorance.

Take care how thou offendest men raised from low condition.

One man's wage rise is another man's price increase.

Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.

A throw of the dice will never abolish chance.

The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.

A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.

A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

In any evolutionary process, even in the arts, the search for novelty becomes corrupting.

He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.

The difference between journalism and literature is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

The artist doesn't see things as they are, but as he is.