​"Next to the originator of a great sentence is the first quoter of it. Said Emerson."

"The next best thing to God. Edna O'Brien called literature."

"My music is best understood by children and animals. Said Stravinsky."

"I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. Said Georgia O'Keefe."

"It is never difficult to paint, said Dalí. It is either easy or impossible."

"Thinking with someone else's brain. Schopenhauer called reading."

"Not to be born is far best. Wrote Sophocles."

"Morningless sleep. Epicurus called death."

"I am no Einstein. Once said Einstein."​

"The world began without man, and it will end without him. Said Lévi-Strauss."