The ego has 100,000 tricks, and once you’ve learned them, 100,000 more.

A grid system was developed in order to rationalize intuitive choices.

Really, I should be grateful; performing this mindless work spares me the burden of maintaining self respect.

I did my best, which is nothing, which is what you’ve come to expect.

1) artworks you have ruined with personal associations:

What’s really being said is what’s been left unsaid.

He said, with exaggerated sadness, as if embarrassed for me, your work is very earnest. 

Last week we had dinner together for the first time in 20 years. In the long run, gravity always wins.

Things you thought were important turned out not to be important.
Things you thought were not important turned out to be important.

Thoughts seemed to harbor great peril, but their absence even more.

If lost, see where it leads.

You find yourself, at age 38, in possession of an “artistic personality” without the accompanying talent, skill, discipline, or intelligence. In short, an asshole.

Bad day.
Wait it out.
Stay within yourself.
It’s a long season.