I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.

The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.

But memory, after a time, dispenses its own emphasis, making a feuilleton of what we once thought most ponderable, laying its wreath on what we never thought to recall.

if you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications.

perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer.

Agony without genius was gaucherie.

When anything gets freed, a zest goes round the world.

Women can't travel light. We're in charge of the basic facts.

I get up and I have coffee and I speak to no man and I go to my desk.

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

I don't suppose there's really any critic except posterity.

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

If you will use your fingers to count your own mistakes, you won't have time to finger others.

A cup to the dead already - Hurrah for the next that dies.

Watching an entrepreneur fail is sad, but watching him fail from lack of nerve is tragic.

I took a month long vacation in the stratosphere, and you know it's very hard to hold your breath.

Ambition is never modest. If modesty means to have middling success, then I can only say: I'm not interested.

I love the challenge of show business. It keeps me on my toes.

I've got very strong hands from playing for many years.

It's a nice visual. I had just done Blade and I put on more weight for Blade and I thought I might as well use it so I kept it and added a little more. I wanted him to be a big bear.

Steve Jobs was a visionary in the technology and telecom community. His contributions to innovating communications have forever changed our industry and our lives. He will be greatly missed.