You define a good flight by negatives: you didnt get hijacked, you didnt crash, you didnt throw up, you werent late, you werent nauseated by the food. So you are grateful. – Paul Theroux
I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldnt repeat a success. Very often youre going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then youre trapped. – Jack Nicholson
All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel