Artists are interested in pictures as sources of ideas for their work. Where the pictures come from and how they are made is of little concern to them.

...throughout the history of art it has been art itself - in all its forms - that has inspired art...today's photographs are so geared to life that one can learn more from them than from life itself.

Do not give your haters the gratification, It means you will never let yourself down.

When you’re always scheming about ways to make money, it’s like a part of you is lost.

Complacency kills. Paranoia is the reason I’m still alive.

Moments into minutes. Minutes into hours. Hours into days. Days into years. Years into possibility. This will linger.

Being hove to in a long gale is the most boring way of being terrified I know.

Developing a compiler was a logical move; but in matters like this, you don't run against logic - you run against people who can't change their minds.

You don't really drive in cabs in L.A. unless you're broke or homeless - or if you're broke and driving the cab.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

Even when conservatives have all the marbles, they still act as if they're under siege. Now that they are under siege, it is no time for them to act as if they're losing their marbles.

The Americans, like the English, probably make love worse than any other race.