All beginnings are hard.

I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.

Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way.

Something that is yours forever is never precious

Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.

Art begins . . . when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed with the inside of the person who is seeing it.

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.

I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art.

I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.

Two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul

…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and plan properly for the future.

I'm not feeling sorry cause you let me down, I'm feeling sorry cause there is no way back.

You have been “self-pitying” for long years now and things don’t seem to improve. Just try a few days of good self-esteeming” and you’ll see things taking a better shape!

When in life you are destined great, but fated to a humble background, it always gets really worse before it gets really better.

Unless and until we rest in God, we will never risk for God.

I’m as forgiving as the wall you hit at two hundred kilometers an hour.

History is not happenstance: it is conspiratorial. Carefully planned and executed by people in power.

There is a better thing than the observance of Christmas day, and that is, keeping Christmas.

Hollywood, we decided, was a nice place to die, but we wouldn't want to live there.

Only oppression should fear the full exercise of freedom.

Comparing Jesus with history's greatest of human leaders is like comparing the sun to a flashlight with no batteries.