I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.

Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?

Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory.

People only see in us the contemptible skirt-fever which rules our actions but completely miss the beauty-hunger underlying it.

Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.

I have done so many things in my life, " she said to the mirror. "Evil things, perhaps. But never unattentively, never wastefully...was I wrong?

Don't rush to design your face to look beautiful, attractive and charming. Rather, be quicker to decorate your mind to appear as goal-oriented, passion-embedded and action-driven.

Individual cultures and ideologies have their appropriate uses but none of them erase or replace the universal experiences, like love and weeping and laughter, common to all human beings.

I didn't want to be a cheerleader, and when you're young and you're blonde that's kind of thrust upon you whether you like it or not.

Letters should be easy and natural.

There's a structure to a detective story that I can easily understand. I understand playing that particular game. It's like solving a puzzle. Or creating a puzzle.

Eating is never so simple as hunger.

We're not sane enough yet to enter space until we learn to live together in peace on Earth.

There is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms.

The less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.

I have always loved performing.