Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as 'suits'.

There are few sources of energy so powerful as a procrastinating college student.

People who write about politics, whether on the left or the right, have a consistent bias: they take politics seriously.

The recipe for great work is: very exacting taste, plus the ability to gratify it.

It’s hard to do a really good job on anything you don’t think about in the shower.

Keep your identity small.

If you'll laugh about something one day, you may as well start now.

It's hard to say exactly what it is about face-to-face contact that makes deals happen, but whatever it is, it hasn't yet been duplicated by technology.

People need to stop accepting the evidence of reality, and start questioning it.

Maybe my greater fear should not be fear itself, but what I will lose should I submit to fear.

Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she's going to come around and whack you. You've got to be prepared.

You may have read that I went to M.I.T. In 1982 I filled out a Who's Who survey with joking responses, and they never bothered to check the facts.

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

I never met someone I did not love.

Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films.

You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk.

Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing.

That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimms, and makes it indistinct As water is in water