“Talent is liquified trouble.”
“White wine is like electricity. Red wine looks and tastes like a liquified beefsteak.”
“The trouble in life is not that you are extraordinarily or ordinarily talented but you are read posthumously.”
“If people who rely on natural spring of talent suddenly find they're exhausted their only source, they're in trouble.”
“If I had a talent I could claim, it would be as a finder of trouble. Which is undoubtedly what I'd find by sticking my nose where it had no right to be. But would I let a thought of trouble stop me? Not a snowflake's chance in hell.”
“I can't get around this dilemma: I have a horror of troubles, but they whip me up, they make me talented. Peace and well-being, on the contrary, paralyze me. Either be a nobody, or everlastingly plagued.”