But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.
The mid-life crisis is just those times when you're not so into the things you were when you were younger.
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

