“Failure is The Way of Success”

“hard work + smart work = eye caching success, shortcut is not ever”

“Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way”

“For the first time in his life, he stopped worrying about results, and as a consequence the terms “success” and “failure” had suddenly lost their meaning for him. The true purpose of art was not to create beautiful objects, he discovered. It was a method of understanding, a way of penetrating the world and finding one’s place in it, and whatever aesthetic qualities an individual canvas might have were almost an incidental by-product of the effort to engage oneself in this struggle, to enter into the thick of things.”

“Diets are essentially training courses in how to feel fat and feel like a failure.”

“True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.”

“You're never alone when you're a schizophrenic. — Of course I talk to myself, I often find that it's the only way to have an intelligent conversation”