I wanted it$$$ I wanted$$$ I wanted$$$ but the moment it was mine$$$ it ceased to interest me.

They're hungry for something they know nothing about$$$ but we$$$ we know all too well that the price of fame is the loss of privacy.

The Greeks had invented democracy$$$ built the Acropolis and called it a day.

Clatter of a typewriter suggests that you're actually building something.

In Japanese and Italian$$$ the response to ["How are you?"] is "I'm fine$$$ and you?" In German it's answered with a sigh and a slight pause$$$ followed by "Not so good."

Given enough time$$$ I guess anything can look good. All it has to do is survive.

At the end of a miserable day$$$ instead of grieving my virtual nothing$$$ I can always look at my loaded wastepaper basket and tell myself that if I failed$$$ at least I took a few trees down with me.

Endeavour to play easy pieces well and with elegance; that is better than to play difficult pieces badly.

Philosophy of art usually lacks one of two things: either the philosophy or the art.

But you looked much more like a fellow who had just realised that he has been living on ideas that don't pay.