If a person has a contribution to make, he must make it in public. If learning is not made public, it is a waste.

I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.

Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way.

Something that is yours forever is never precious

Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.

Art begins . . . when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed with the inside of the person who is seeing it.

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.

I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art.

All beginnings are hard.

I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.

Two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul

When people say they hate life, to what are they comparing it to? The alternative isn't any more appealing.

Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word - heed well! - this mine and thine.

I'm proud of "Shoot the Moon."

The summer of 1830 I... blasted the tunnel through the rock to take water from the dam above the falls for the mill... In 1831 we lowered the tunnel four feet, and built a new dam across the creek.

Like so many of our people, we have now had a personal experience of German barbarity which only strengthens the resolution of all of us to fight through to final victory.

Nobody Told Me There'd Be Days Like These.

Communications is the number one major in America today. CNN had 25,000 applicants for five intern jobs this summer.

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.

And she is your holy Mary. And I am so ordinary.

If someone doesn't want me, I'm not going to hang around and win them over.