Happiness for me is largely a matter of digestion.

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.

If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it.

In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.

A good traveler is one who who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveler does not know where he came from.

I didn't want to be like everybody else. Art was my religion.

To be an artist, you're basically a crazy person. You're extremely narcissistic and emotionally expressive. The idea that the world needs to listen to you is an insane thought.

If you're in a position where you can help other people, there is nothing better in life than helping other people. Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!

A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it.

For two centuries, the South has feared a takeover by blacks or the feds. In Obama, they have both.

Ambition is a devouring fire, who can poise it? It is a wind, who can fathom it? It is an abyss, who is able to recount the sources and issues thereof?

I would much prefer their minds to be engaged in the deadly arts than clouded with dreams of marriage and fortune, as your own so clearly is!

I feel really grateful to the people who encouraged me and helped me develop. Nobody can succeed on their own.

The only thing that I am ambitious about is to live a good life. Full stop.

I don't want an elderly gentleman from Vienna with an umbrella inflicting his dreams upon me.