Creating is an ordinary act, creation its extraordinary outcome.

There are few overnight successes and many up-all-night successes.

A species that survives by creating must not limit who can create. More creators means more creations. Equality brings justice to some and wealth to all.

Make an enemy of certainty and befriend doubt. When you can change your mind, you can change anything.

Success is not determined by the outcome. The outcome is the result of having already decided that you are successful to begin with.

Sure, I’m gray-shading the line that separates stable and crazy, but the point is, there is a line. And I haven’t completely crossed over to lunatic.

Opinion is, as it were, the queen of the world, but force is its tyrant.

I'm the guilty one for uttering those terrible, ugly words.

I have never had a great love of the music business, I never have.

Someone's always saying, "It's not whether you win or lose," but if you feel that way, you're as good as dead.

We dreamed together of the world remade.

I have never designed a language for its own sake.

I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.

People want other people to know that they share our sensibility even if they're not exactly sure what that sensibility is.