I never get my creativity flowing. I'm a pro, this is how I earn my living. If it don't flow, I don't eat.

If I had the money and the drinking capacity, I'd probably live at a roulette table and let my life go to hell.

All paths cause pain, so to chose the safe over the audacious will not give you less pain, only less beauty.

It may be that it is not given to us to know when we are angels. We may only be given to know when others are. This may be one of the reasons we need each other so.

Leave people alone when they tell you to leave them alone. If they mean it, they need it.

Be careful how you choose your enemy, for you will come to resemble him. The moment you adapt your enemy's methods your enemy has won. The rest is suffering and historical opera.

To be physically astute and psychologically tended, yet morally insulated and conceptually blind--is to be crazy, not healthy.

If your vulnerability has become hardened, it's very, very difficult to be creative.

An artist without obsession isn't worth a damn!

The people you have to lie to, own you. The things you have to lie about, own you.

Stop tolerating in your leaders what you would not tolerate in your friends.

Humility is an interesting virtue because if you don't have It, sooner or later it's given to you.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

Children have in the past and continue to influence policy makers.

Come my, heart, up and away!

I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.

The road made wet by the water of August shines like it was cut in full moonlight

Destroy our leisure and you break love's bow.

Two months later at a party, Bernard pulled me into a closet and proposed. I said yes.

I can work 24 hours a day and not have it bother me.

I'm definitely more talented than most of the guys I know.