I have a strong urge to lie down and pretend this is not happening—like the old couple in Titanic.

In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.

Do your thing and don't care if they like it.

Some people say, “Never let them see you cry.” I say, if you’re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone.

(My proudest moment as a child was the time I beat my uncle Pierre at Scrabble with the seven-letter word FARTING.)

Whitney Houston’s cover of “I Will Always Love You” was constantly on my FM Walkman radio around that time. I think that made me cry because I associated it with absolutely no one.

You all watched a sketch about feminism and you didn't even know it because of all the jokes. It's like when Jessica Seinfeld puts spinach in kids' brownies. Suckers!

Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions ... Do your thing, and don't care if they like it.

Don't hire anyone you wouldn't want to run into in the hallway at three in the morning.

We spent days and weeks doing nothing, calling one another ten times a day to schedule our nothing-doing.

Was it too much to expect the rest of the world to care about grammar or pay attention to details?

All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.

One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

We can never be born enough.

One must always practice slowly. If you learn something slowly, you forget it slowly.

I believe the geometric proportion served the creator as an idea when He introduced the continuous generation of similar objects from similar objects.

It is not true that one cannot live without a woman. It is simply that one cannot have lived without one.

Like wildflowers you must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.

The nuances and organic characteristics of a character become second nature if I'm doing my job well.