I wish I could have built without destroying things.

I normally don't regret. I enjoy everything, even if it's bad or good.

Just let me live my life.

If you open yourself as an artist, as a human being to this experience of growing, you grow anyway.

Not many people understand that, but if you open yourself to listening - you don't even have to exercise - you get better with time.

Artists are kids. I feel like I'm six years old.

What made my mind go free is that I wanted to become an artist.

I feel like I'm getting stronger and stronger, and I don't practice as much as I used to.

As an artist, you have a choice. That gave me the freedom to do what I want to.

I wish I could, instead of destroying things like that, I wish I could build, build, build.

Now I want to become an artist, rather than one thing, like a dancer, or a movie star, or a choreographer.

I plead with you--never, ever give up on hope, never doubt, never tire, and never become discouraged. Be not afraid.

Ti­tles are granted or in­her­ited, no­bil­ity isn't. Whatever paper we receive, be it of material or immaterial value – it will never exceed the value of your character being loved by people!

[T]here are in fact no masses, but only ways of seeing people as masses.

Health is relative. There is no such thing as an absolute state of health or sickness. Everyone's physical, mental, and emotional condition is a combination of both.

Shoot from the gut, edit with the brain

Americans are not gonna conserve. We're not gonna shift to smaller cars. We can't - we have big, fat kids.

The only thing that can bring joy is work.

For me, writing a novel is like solving a puzzle. But I don't intend my novels as puzzles. I intend them as invitations to dance.

I wanted to meet other artists. I suppose I simply felt that I was taking pot shots at clay pipes. Pop! Down goes Gertrude, down goes Jean Cocteau, down goes André Gide.

The last thing that people want to hear is the plain simple fact that the rich think differently [about money] than the poor ... They have what I call a wealthy mindset.