Art is unpredictable.

The mentally disturbed do not employ the Principle of Scientific Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of facts. They shoot for the baroque.

Hope is what keeps us hanging on when we feel our rope wearing out. A positive attitude is often the natural result of maintaining that hope.

Only a very gifted mind could cope singly with all the problems which present themselves in the perfecting of a home.

The thing about a motion picture is that look of film on a big screen takes you into a magical.

Oftentimes, when people write me 4,000-word letters, I write them back and tell them if their problem's that complicated, they probably need a lawyer or a cop, and not me.

The self does not realize itself most fully when self-realization is its most constant aim.

You can learn from anyone even your enemy.

Surely nobody would be a charlatan, who could afford to be sincere.

It's critical to have a sound foundation in free-market economics and the Constitution. A great many Republicans in Washington don't have that foundation.

What I wanted was just to make music, and so, originally I just wanted to hide behind the album cover of the last record, and I wanted it to be almost anonymous.