"If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know."
- Thomas Wolfe
from The Web And The Rock

"Be regular and ordinary in your life like a good burgeoise, so you can be violent and original in your work."
- Gustave Flaubert