Jose Ortega y Gasset

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

The free sharing and teaching of open source is incompatible with the notion of the solitary genius.

I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery.