The world is a place of the living, and the dead have no place in it. The dead are nothing.
The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.
Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.
"The ordinary is extraordinary if you look at it long enough."