Creativity: that which wasn't there before, but which can be made simply and completely.

To complicate is simple, to simplify is complicated. ... Everybody is able to complicate. Only a few can simplify.

Progress means simplifying, not complicating

The designer of today re-establishes the long-lost contact between art and the public, between living people and art as a living thing.

When the artist observes nature... it is as if nature communicated, through the sensitivity of the artist at that moment, one of its secrets.

To complicate is easy. To simplify is difficult

It feels great to read but greater to write.

A good book should make you laugh, cry or pee your pants. The best do all three!

I find it incredibly difficult to write anything that's really happy.

I am not generous about telling people who I am and what I like to do because it's my life and it only belongs to me and my friends and family.

We are not programmed to bury our kids.

Why do we work so hard to feel so terrible?

There's been periods of broadcasts in the past where you could see all ages of entertainers, ranging from George Burns to Shirley Temple. That's not the condition now.

Pleasure is the bait of sin

And he’s just plain odd. And what is your problem that you keep putting yourself in my way? (Geary) She’s feisty, Skotos. I can see the appeal. (ZT)

Evolution is not something to be feared. It's to be celebrated, embraced, and understood.