Bugs Is Who We Want

The Author O. Henry Taught Me About The Value Of The Unexpected. He Once Wrote About The Noise Of Flowers And The Smell Of Birds—the Birds Were Chickens And The Flowers Dried Sunflowers Rattling Against A Wall.

When A Young Artist Asked Me For Advice On Drawing The Human Foot, I Told Him, ‘the First Thing You Must Learn Is How To Take Your Shoe Off, And Then How To Take Your Sock Off, Then Prop Your Leg Up Carefully On Your Other Knee, Take A Piece Of Paper, And Draw Your Foot.’

You Do Not 'suffer' If You Decide 'that's The Way It Is' Rather Than 'why Is It This Way?'

Anyone Can Negatively Criticize - It Is The Cheapest Of All Comment Because It Requires Not A Modicum Of The Effort That Suggestion Requires.

Eschew The Ordinary, Disdain The Commonplace. If You Have A Single-minded Need For Something, Let It Be The Unusual, The Esoteric, The Bizarre, The Unexpected.