If you get to be thirty-five and your job still involves wearing a name tag, you've probably made a serious vocational error.

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.

My vocation is more in composition really than anything else -- building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.