“If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.”

“I say, 'Well, if you can't please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.'Hannalore frowns. A note hits her in the forehead and drops to the floor. She bends at the knees to retrieve it, the perfect lady. The writing is large enough for me to read: SHOW US YOUR BOOBS!She holds up the note. 'Which of you appalling children threw this at me?'Pete Santorini, Ben Grossman, and Alex Nobody-Can-Pronounce-His-Last-Name laugh so hard that Alex chokes on his gum and Ben has to pound his back.”

“you cannot please everyone, so why please anyone at all?”

“Accept that you’ll never please everyone and you’re on your way to pleasing the right ones.”

“You can try to please everyone and risk accomplishing nothing, or go for your dreams and risk pissing a few people off.”

“This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother.”