Being popular with an audience is a very rickety ladder to be on.
I don't know what they're thinking about. Just because someone says, 'I like what you do' or something: They might like it today and tomorrow they might not. I've had that experience with record companies.
It is impossible to stand upright when one plants his roots in the shifting sands of popular opinion and approval.
I have no predilection for unpopularity as such, but I hold it much preferable to the popularity of a day, which perishes with the transient topic upon which it is grounded.
I would say that my parents were intermittently proud of me. They couldn't hang onto it, you know? It would come and go, like the flu.
Popular applause veers with the wind.
An habitation giddy and unsure Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart.
