A writer wants what he has to say to be heard again and again. He wants it to be heard after he is dead. - William Saroyan

A prudent man does not open an umbrella for one drop of rain.

In every house there ought to be an art table on which, one by one, things are placed, so that everybody in that house might look at the things very carefully, and see them.'

'What would you put on a table like that?'

'A leaf. A coin. A button. A stone. A small piece of torn newspaper. An apple. An egg. A pebble. A flower. A dead insect. A shoe.'

'Everybody's seen those things.'

'Of course. But nobody looks at them, and that's what art is. To look at familiar things as if they had never before been seen... A necktie. A pocketknife... a walnut.

Art is what is irresistible.