Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike

Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

Take your work seriously, but never yourself.

Life offstage has sometimes been a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world.

Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.

If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?