To change one's life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions.
The only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.