I like keeping my work so open that it can be interpreted on different levels. Art can't be compared with journalism; it can't discuss concrete issues.

Art can't be compared with journalism; it can't deal with concrete issues.

Freedom is not archived by satisfying desire, but by eliminating it.

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

If anybody asks me what I have accomplished, I will say all I have accomplished is that I have written a few good sentences.

Happier are the hands compast with yron, then a heart with thoughts.

a person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it

The customer is number one, the employee is number two and the shareholder is number three. If the customer is happy, the business is happy, and the shareholders are happy.

Almost every great innovation was [created] by government.

No political dreamer was ever wild enough to think of breaking down the lines which separate the States and compounding the American people into one common mass.

My mother has always been the social glue holding the family together.

I tend to go to the theater a lot. Ive always loved it.