I look at everything in an artistic way.

While you're doing it, you don't really know what you're doing.

I've always believed that service to others is rent we pay for our time on this planet.

My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx.

I wouldn't be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife.

If you don't know your gift, you've got no lift.

Like an opera singer, I am able to sing out my song in paint.

I was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable.

Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.

I want the public to know that it will be an honor for me to meet them and spend a few special moments with all those who helped me through my filmed career.

You wanna know the secret of life? The saliva of young girls.

The main reception foyer was almost empty but Ford nevertheless weaved his way through it.

One who gossips usually carries boredom in one hand and bitterness in the other.

Not even generals can stop the rain.

In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.

In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.

May we all beware lest our innovative ideas appear very cliche before we even blink.

A Bit of Craziness Is Good for Business

The challenge is always as a writer, is this going to work, because it's a very intimate process, and I tend to be very introverted and insular, and when I write, it's in my head.

Better to cry wolf over and over than never to cry wolf at all.

I knew I was too late—and I was glad something bloodthirsty waited in the wings. For in failing at this, I forfeited any desire to live.