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One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception – at least some of the time, incompetent or crazy.

And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

I’m always in that mode – whenever I have a little free time, I’m always recording songs, writing, whatever I gotta do. It’s like my job is my vacation.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.

Toil is man’s allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that’s more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

Don’t just work for the money; that will bring only limited satisfaction.

The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.

For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.