"Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance"

"We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival"

"Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged"

"Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working"

"Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation"

"Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model"

"The groups, though, were my inspiration way back then. I liked Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers"

"One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled"

"When you're younger, your inspiration is there. As you get older, it tends to waver. Once you find it - I found it again - that's where you can draw from. That's where you draw your strength from"

"Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries"

"Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind"