The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully. – Eric Hoffer
More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle. – Eric Hoffer
When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion. – Eric Hoffer
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn. – Eric Hoffer
One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). Its why he found shooting on set boring – because he had already composed the film in his head. – Camille Paglia