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There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life.

People think meditation is a huge undertaking. Don't think of it like that.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

I never want projects to be finished; I have always believed in unfinished work. I got that from Schubert, you know, the 'Unfinished Symphony.'

I suspect that writers and other creators are never really finished with any work.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

I steer clear of any novel that gets billed as a 'meditation.'

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.