America is a construction of mind, not of race or inherited class or ancestral territory.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.

Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre

A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.

One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs.

Why wait for a call when you have a command?

Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public

Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.

It is the nature of carnivores to get power and then, having disposed of their enemies, to deploy the emollient powers of Great Art to make themselves look like herbivores.

The Function of Leadership is to produce more Leaders, Not more Followers.

Find your happiness in yourself.

I did not hear what you said, but I absolutely disagree with you.

We need to get back to a level of social responsibility that we haven't seen for a long time.

I've always been really good with my heels. Even pregnant, I could perform in heels.

Don't think less of yourself, just think less about yourself.

When romance is done well in a movie, its awesome.

Let's pass a bill to cover the moon with yogurt that will cost $5 trillion today. And then let's pass a bill the next day to cancel that bill. We could save $5 trillion.

I'm an old git now, so I would say this, but television was better when there were less channels. There was more concentration and selection in terms of the output.

We're conditioned in this country to believe that if there's a problem, the black man is usually the culprit.