'Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.'

'The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.'

'A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar.'

'The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterward.'

'For me,' he explains his mammoth project, 'it is an obligation to know and learn to understand the various styles living within the guitar, to work with them …

I've taken stuff from people, too. You know though, if you steal from one person, you're just a thief. But if you steal from everyone, that's research.

''Write what you know' is a tautology. You have no choice -- you have to write what you know, and in order to write something new, you have to learn something …